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To ?   27 April 1880

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

April 27. 1880

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in writing, but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty.1

I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The correspondent and the precise subject of the letter have not been identified, but CD was interested in cases where a malformation caused by an injury appeared to have been inherited (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 26, letter to W. H. Flower, [4 March 1878]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12591,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12591