To Pieter Harting   18 July [1875–81]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 18th

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your kind note.—2 It gives me much pleasure to send you two photographs, & you can select which you like for your Album & throw away the other.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from late 1874; he died in April 1882.
No letters from Harting to CD have been found. In 1877, CD expressed his appreciation to Harting for an album of photographs of his Dutch admirers (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Kent.] before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11062,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11062