To [W. W. Bailey]1   10 October 1877

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

Oct 10 77

Dear Sir,

I write merely a line to thank you for your kind note with various pieces of information, which will be useful should I ever bring out a corrected Edit of my book.2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

The correspondent is suggested from the likely relationship between this letter and the letters from W. W. Bailey, 28 September 1877 and [November 1877] (Correspondence vol. 25).
See Correspondence vol. 25, letter from W. W. Bailey, 28 September 1877. Bailey had been inspired to write by his reading of Forms of flowers and Cross and self fertilisation.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11176F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11176F