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To R. A. Blair   4 [August] 18781

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

July 4th 1878

Dear Sir

I write one line to acknowledge your letter & to thank you for all your extraordinary kindness.—2 I have written to Prof. Flower with all particulars, & urged him to examine carefully the wings.—3 I suspect that it is near his holidays, when he leaves London, so there may be some delay in the investigation.— You shall hear hereafter.

In Haste | Dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

1
CD misdated his letter 4 July instead of 4 August 1878. This letter is a reply to the letter from R. A. Blair, 17 July 1878, which arrived on 4 August (see n. 3, below).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11589,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11589