To Leonard Darwin   12 July [1879]1

July 12

My dear old Lenny

…

I am quite ready to shorten or leave out many parts, but at present I cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family—2 I know that I myself, and some others, always wish to hear this, and Krause wrote to beg for some information as to family before he knew that I intended to say anything on the subject3

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Copy incomplete

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Leonard Darwin, [before 12 July] 1879.
2
In his letter of [before 12 July] 1879, Leonard had suggested omitting the text relating to the ancestry of the Darwin family in CD’s preliminary notice to Erasmus Darwin.
4
The ellipses at the beginning and end of the letter are in the copy.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12153,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12153