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From C. E. Fry   13 September 1878

Baker St No. 55

Sept 13. 78.

Sir

By book post I send you a little packet containing a series of seven photographs of a little boy: they are curious & may be interesting to you showing change of expression

The photographs were taken one after the other in sequence as numbered. The child is a singularly simple minded and unaffected little boy. & the pictures show curiously how the little chap is striving in his mind to keep still & yet not to be so grave as in the last1

I beg Sir that you will retain & accept them if the photos are of any interest to you

I am Sir | Yours truly | Clarence E. Fry | Elliott & Fry2

Charles Darwin Esq

CD annotations

Verso: ‘Elliott & Fry | 6 Plates | Transition from | grave to gay’ pencil
1
The photographs are in DAR 164: 218, but the first photograph is missing: for the other six, see the plate in Correspondence vol. 26. The boy may have been Fry’s son, Clarence Edmund Fry Jr (Clare Fry).
2
Elliott & Fry were London photographers.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11691,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11691