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To Robert Hutton   [1847 – 12 November 1848]1

Down Farnborough | Kent

Sunday

My dear Mr. Hutton

The next morning after seeing you at the Geolog. Soc.2 I heard from my Father, that he had written to an old friend, who, as he thought probable, was intimate with Lady E. Finch,3 & thus I have got a good introduction. I write this to save you or your friend any further trouble, & I thank you heartily for your very kind readiness to help me.

Believe me | Very truly yours | C. Darwin

Pray give my kind compliments to Mrs & the Miss Huttons

1
The letter has an 1847 watermark. The closing date is the Sunday before the death of CD’s father Robert Waring Darwin on 13 November 1848.
2
Hutton, like CD, was on the council of the Geological Society of London.
3
Probably Elizabeth Finch, who had a collection of British shells (Jeffreys 1831, pp. 505–6).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1040,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1040