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To C. H. Tindal   17 November 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov. 17th. 1879

Dear Sir,

I am very much obliged by your kind offer of lending me the M.S.S. relating to my grandfather.1

The little biography has already appeared, but I should be grateful if you would send me the letters. I should be interested in reading them, & I might see whether they would be of use in case of a second edition of the Life of Dr Darwin.2

I need not say that I would take the greatest care of them & return them as soon as I had read them & if necessary made extracts from them.

With my best thanks for your kindness, | I am, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
Tindal’s letter offering the manuscript has not been found. He later sent correspondence between two friends of Erasmus Darwin, Robert Clive and Richard Gifford (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from C. H. Tindal, 1 January 1880).
2
CD wrote the preliminary notice to Erasmus Darwin; a second edition was published with minor changes in 1887 (see Erasmus Darwin 2d. ed, pp. v–viii).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12326F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12326F