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To W. H. Flower   [4 March 1878]

4. Bryanston St

Monday

My dear Flower

I have been so poorly all the time that I have not been able to call on you, so I have lost that pleasure.—1 It signifies little my not showing you the photograph of the goose.— If the bone shd. prove blemished I will send a notice to Nature,— perhaps in any case as it turns out rather a curious instance of inheritance, independently of the cause of the malconformation.—2

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘March 4th 1878’

1
CD was in London from 27 February to 5 March 1878 for reasons of poor health (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [3 or 4 March 1878].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 4. Bryanston St] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’
1.4 instance] above del ‘case’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11398,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11398