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To Francis Darwin   27 December [1880]1

[Down.]

My dear F.

I think that you have told everything important in your abstract in an excellent manner.2 Every part is as clear as daylight.—

Pray give my kindest remembrances to Marshall, Marshall & Co.— No, this is too impudent, give my kindest remembrances to them as simple Christians3

Ever yours affect | C. D

Dec. 27th

1
The year is established by the reference to the Marshalls (see n. 3, below).
2
Francis had recently presented two papers at the Linnean Society (F. Darwin 1880a and F. Darwin 1880b; he summarised these in Nature, 23 December 1880, pp. 178–81 (see letter from Francis Darwin, [before 15 December 1880]).
3
Francis and his son, Bernard Darwin, had gone to Coniston (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had stayed at the Waterhead Hotel, Coniston, on Victor Marshall’s Monk Coniston estate, in 1879. Marshall’s wife was Victoria Alberta Alexandrina Marshall; his cousin William Cecil Marshall was a friend of CD’s son Horace Darwin at Cambridge and had designed extensions to Down House (Freeman 1978).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12945,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12945