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To Henry Edwards    [after 21 February 1881?]1

I like ‘Papilio’ very much, and, though I am not specially an entomologist, it seems to me to be established on a wise principle of investigation, and you will probably do better work by concentrating your inquiries.2 I wish for it and your society every success.

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1
The date is conjectured from the relationship between this letter and the letter to Henry Edwards, 21 February 1881. CD was probably sent copies of the journal Papilio when he was made an honorary member of the New York Entomological Club.
2
Papilio was the journal of the New York Entomological Club; Edwards was the editor. In the first issue, the publication committee wrote that the journal would be ‘devoted solely to Lepidoptera’ (Papilio, 15 January 1881, p. 1).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13102F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13102F