Down, | Beckenham, Kent. (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
December 23. 1880
Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill
I thank you for your kindness in writing to me.1 I have heard of a good many cases of one breed being so prepotent over another, that a cross seems to produce hardly any effect.—2
I do not think that I shall be in London for some time, but whenever I am, I will have the pleasure of calling on your Ladyship & beg leave to remain | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12933,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on