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To J. N. Lockyer   21 May [1878]1

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

May 21st

Private

My dear Sir

I hope that you will think the enclosed worth printing in “Nature”2   A wood-cut wd. add greatly to its interest.—3 If printed perhaps I had better see proof.— If not printed, may I beg you to return it as I shd. be extremely sorry to lose record of so curious a case.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. F. Gray, 8 May [1878].
2
CD enclosed the letter from A. F. Gray, 8 May [1878]; the letter, together with an introductory note from CD, was published in Nature, 30 May 1878, pp. 120–1 (see letter to Nature, [21? May 1878]).
3
A woodcut was made of Gray’s drawing and published in Nature, 30 May 1878, p. 121 (see letter from A. F. Gray, 8 May [1878]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11522A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11522A