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To Richard Owen   [1847?]1

Down Farnborough | Kent

Sunday

My dear Owen

Will you be so good as to endeavour to give me 12 an hour on Tuesday between 12 past 12 & 12 past one oclock. It will be a great kindness, as I am most anxious for your opinion on a few zoological points.2

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The conjectured date is based on an 1847 watermark. During that year CD made frequent visits to London to attend Geological Society council meetings (Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix I).
2
Caroline Owen recorded that CD often called at the Owens’ London home for discussions with Richard Owen. On 7 January 1847 she wrote (R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 292): Mr. Darwin was here very early, before breakfast. He and R. had a long discussion on the subject of R.’s views on osteology and the archetype. After breakfast R. brought out his ‘Broadsheet of Osteology’ [synonyms of bones]. Mr. Darwin quite saw the force of that.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1044,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1044