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To Karl von Scherzer   26 April 1878

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

April 26. 1878.

My dear Sir

I thank you sincerely for your extremely kind letter & am glad to hear of the important post, as I suppose, to which you have been appointed.—1

I would gladly have asked you to come down here, though it is not likely that you could have spared the time, but we all leave home tomorrow morning for a visit of between 2 & 3 weeks to my married & eldest son.2

With all good wishes for your happiness and prosperity I remain | my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

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1
This letter has not been found. Scherzer had been appointed the Austrian consul general in Leipzig; his post as deputy consul general in London had ended on 19 April 1878 (Agstner 2012, p. 162).
2
CD and Emma Darwin visited Sara and William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 27 April to 13 May 1878 (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11485,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11485