From John Simon   25 February 1878

Dear M^r. Darwin,

I cannot flatter myself that you will be altogether interested in the paper of mine for which I posted you on Saturday a number of the Brit. Med. Journal, the special aim of the paper being very technically surgical: (that, namely, of prodding my fellow-doctors to try to improve on our present dismal routine in the surgery of Cancer:) but I thought you might perhaps like to see the part of it which relates to Creighton’s work; and we doctors should have much reason to rejoice if you were enough interested in those curious observations of his to feel tempted to help us, some day, to interpret them.¹

I hope that you and Mrs Darwin (to whom please give my best respects) are well; and I remain, dear M^r Darwin, | Very faithfully yours, | John Simon.

P.S. | I have had the pleasure of a recent report of Basset from Theodora who was spending yesterday evening with us.²