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To J. G. Fenwick   19 March 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.| Railway Station | Orpington S.E.R.

March 19. 1876

Dear Sir

I have been greatly interested and amused by your letter.1 The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some “orderlings” in my own composition, and I wish that I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring. I daresay you know my friend F. Galton’s book on Hereditary Genius,2 & I will let him read your letter as I am sure it will interest him

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

2
Francis Galton mentioned orderliness in his discussion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Galton 1869, p. 233).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10420,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10420