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To Francis Galton   11 February [1877]1

Down.

Feb. 11th

My dear G.

The enclosed is worth your looking at. It was sent me from N. Zealand, as the writer thought we shd. not in England see Ticknor’s life.!—2 I shd. think T. was to be trusted, & if so case very curious. It makes me believe statement about inherited hand-writing.—3 I shall never work on inheritance again, so extract need not be returned.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

I do hope Mrs Galton4 is pretty well again.—

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter, the letter to Julius von Haast, [c. 11 February 1877], and the letter from Francis Galton, 22 February 1877.
2
CD had received an extract from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor (Ticknor 1876, 1: 196–7) from Julius von Haast (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Julius von Haast, 16 December 1876 and n. 1, and this volume, letter to Julius von Haast, [c. 11 February 1877]).
3
CD remarked on the inheritance of handwriting in Variation 2: 6 and Descent 1: 58.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10839,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10839