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To J. B. Innes   2 December 1880

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

Dec. 2d 1880

My dear Innes

I have delayed answering your note of the 29th, until hearing from the acting executor, Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood.1 He writes to day that the land will be sold by auction with the house: this will be soon, but date not yet fixed. I have an abominable number of letters to answer so pray excuse brevity; not that I can remember any news of this place worth telling you.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
See letter from J. B. Innes, 29 November 1880. Innes wanted to acquire some of the land adjacent to Tromer Lodge, the home of Elizabeth Wedgwood, who had died on 8 November 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). No letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood on the subject has been found.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12881,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12881