To [William Whitaker?]1   16 March 1880

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

March 16th 1880

Dear Sir

I must send one line to thank you for thinking to send me the article on inheritance, which is a subject which always interests me.2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

The correspondent is conjectured from a note in an unknown hand at the foot of the letter (‘W. Whitaker’).
The article has not been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12537,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12537