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To W. E. Gladstone   4 August [1879]

Coniston

Aug 4th.

Dear Mr. Gladstone

Although you are so kind as to tell me not to acknowledge the receipt of your Essay, in which you show how wonderfully Homer distinguished different kinds of movement,1 yet I must beg permission to thank you for this honour & I remain | Faithfully yours | Charles Darwin

Postmark: AU 4 79

1
Gladstone had sent CD his essay ‘On epithets of movement in Homer’ (Gladstone 1879) with his letter of 24 July 1879.
2
The cover, with the postmark, is in the sale catalogue.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Coniston] before del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12181,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12181