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To G. H. Darwin   23 [August 1880]1

Down

23d.

My dear George

You are a dead hand at decyphering: will you try & make out something of enclosed letter.—2 Frank has utterly failed.3 The bothering man has sent me a German book on “The Bible & Science”.—4

I enjoyed my stay at Cambridge extremely—more than anything for a very long time.—5

Your affect Father | C. Darwin

1
The month and year are established by the mention of CD’s trip to Cambridge (see n. 5, below).
2
The letter has not been found; it was probably written in Kurrentschrift, a form of cursive writing that is the written counterpart of typefaces such as Fraktur. In the past CD had asked some of his German correspondents to write in ‘Italian character’ (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Wilhelm Pfeffer, 23 March 1879).
4
The German correspondent and the book have not been identified.
5
CD was in Cambridge from 14 to 19 August (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 German 1.3] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12697,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12697