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To Edward Cresy   [20 July 1848]1

Down,

Thursday.

My dear Sir,

You have thanked me far too much for the trifling aid which I have given & which I assure you has given me pleasure. I will not fail to speak to Owen,2 Sir H. Delebeche & Hutton, whenever I see them. I have no doubt that you have judged wisely in not getting me to write to the others.

I believe I mentioned to you that I hoped to have had a party of Naturalists here & that I would ask you to meet them: but my health has been so very indifferent & from my wife soon expecting her confinement, I have not asked anyone here.

I shall be at all times very glad to see you & hope you all success in your present scheme.

Yours sincerely, | In Haste, | C. Darwin.

I leave home on Saturday for a week to the sea-side.3

1
Dated by CD’s reference to leaving home for a week at the seaside, see n. 3, below.
2
Richard Owen, a member of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers and a close friend of both William Buckland and Edwin Chadwick.
3
CD left for Swanage on 22 July 1848 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix I). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, William Erasmus Darwin accompanied CD.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1192,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1192