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To M. L. Pennington   24 October 1878

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

Dear Mrs. Pennington

I have the pleasure to send my signature, which you wish for & which you can cut off from the foot of this note1

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

October 24th. 1878.—

1
No letter from Pennington requesting CD’s autograph has been found, but she had met CD at Leith Hill Place, Surrey, on 10 August 1878 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Emma mentioned the visit in a letter to William Erasmus Darwin of 11 August 1878, noting, ‘She is a nice simple mannered woman but a tremendous lion-hunter’ (DAR 219.1: 114).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11727F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11727F