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To A. R. Wallace   16 September 1878

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

Sept 16. 1878

My dear Wallace

I return the paper signed & most heartily wish that you may be successful, not only for your own sake, but for that of natural science, as you would then have more time for new researches.1 I keep moderately well, but always feel half-dead, yet manage to work away on vegetable physiology, as I think that I shd die outright, if I had nothing to do.—2

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
See letter from A. R. Wallace, 14 September 1878. Wallace had asked for CD’s support in his application to become superintendent of Epping Forest.
2
CD was working with his son Francis Darwin on movement in plants; their research was published in 1880 (Movement in plants).

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11695,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11695