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To J. B. Thayer   14 February 1878

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

Feb 14. 1878

My dear Sir,

I write a single line to thank you for your kind note & to acknowledge the safe return of Wright’s letters. I have read a large part of the book with much interest. There seemed to me no objection to publishing the short extracts from my letters to him.1

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
With his letter of 29 January 1878, Thayer returned the letters Chauncey Wright had written to CD. Thayer had borrowed them to publish in Letters of Chauncey Wright (see Thayer 1878, pp. 230–6, 240–6, 304–18, and 331–8). He also apologised for not seeking CD’s explicit permission to publish extracts from CD’s letters to Wright.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11359A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11359A