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To ?   21 April 1879

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

April 21st 1879

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your courteous letter & for the gift of your articles, which I will soon read.1 It is very gratifying to me to hear that agriculturists attend at all to my works.—

I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

P.S | As I have great difficulty in reading German letters, I have been compelled to gum your address to the envelope of this note.—

1
The correspondent was probably the author of the article ‘Die Darwinische Theorie und die Landwirtschaft’ (The Darwinian theory and agriculture), which was published in several issues of the magazine Reunion; in January 1880, the editor of the magazine invited CD to comment on the essay (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Oskar von Giesl, 29 January 1880). The author and the magazine have not been identified.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12006F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12006F