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From Henry Johnson   22 September [1879]1

10 Corve St | Ludlow

Sept 22.

My dear Darwin,

I am going to ask you a great favour. You see what trouble your great Eminence in Science brings upon you.

Will you be so very kind at your leisure to give me your autograph on a loose bit of paper. It is for a brother medical man who is very anxious to possess it.

You will be surprised to learn that I have retired from Shrewsbury and come to live here quietly & I am not well, having attacks something like Angina Pectoris.

I sincerely hope you are well & strong in mind & body as ever.

Believe me | Yours most truly | & heartily | Henry Johnson

P.S. Mary & I were present in the Cave near Tenby when they found so many antediluvial bones &c. with Professor Rolleston &c. It was deeply interesting.2

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879.
2
Mary Elisabeth Johnson (Johnson’s daughter) and George Rolleston. Human and animal remains were found in two caves at Longbury Bank, Penally, near Tenby; the excavation is described in the Report of the 48th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1878): 209–17.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12236,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12236