To ? 21 March 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent

March 21. 76

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your great kindness in informing me about the gems & sending me the impressions. I am however so ignorant in Archaeology that I will not accept your very obliging offer of sending me one of your valuable gems for inspection.¹

With my best thanks & compliments | I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

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No letter to CD on this subject has been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10423F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10423F

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Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-10423F
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Unidentified
Date: 21 Mar 1876
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30-Supplement.

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