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From Florence Dixie   29 November [1880]1

Bosworth Park. | Hinckley. | Leicestershire.

Novber. 29th.

Dear Mr. Darwin.

I have great pleasure in forwarding to you the Acct. of my travels in Patagonia and trust the book will meet with your approval.––2

I fear you will find it devoid of much interest. While begging you to look on this my first literary production with leniency written as it was during the never ending interuptions of a London Season I hope that the hurried acct. of a few of our adventures & occupations in that far off land will be of sufficient interest to carry you thro’ its pages.–– I venture at the same time to send you a little tragedy which I wrote some years ago as a child of 14.–– It was printed for private circulation at the request & after the death of the late Ld. Lytton but having given some offence I have since suppressd its circulation.3

With many apologies for what may appear presumptions on my part allow me to remain | yrs. very sincerely | Florence Dixie.

1
The year is established by the reference to Dixie 1880 (see n. 2, below).
2
In her letter of 4 November [1880], Dixie offered to send CD a copy of Across Patagonia (Dixie 1880); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL.
3
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. A copy of Abel avenged: a dramatic tragedy (Douglas 1877), published under Dixie’s maiden name, Florence Douglas, is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12875,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12875