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To F. M. Balfour   28 January 1881

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

Jan. 28th 1881

My dear Balfour

I must write a few lines to thank you cordially for all that you have done about the letter in Nature.— The translation is as clear as daylight. For the future I shall not care if Mr. Butler calls me a liar, thief or murderer.1

Again thanking you, believe me, Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
Balfour had translated Ernst Krause’s response to Samuel Butler; it was published as a letter in Nature, 27 January 1881, p. 288 (see letter to F. M. Balfour, 12 January 1881).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13030,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13030