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To A. B. Buckley   6 July [1881]1

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

July 6th.

We returned home only late last night.—2 I shall be much pleased to read over your article, but I am not a good critic3

I have many letters to answer

C. Darwin

ApcS

1
The year is established by the reference to the Darwins returning home on 5 July (see n. 2, below), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter to A. B. Buckley, 11 July 1881.
2
The Darwins arrived home from the Lake District on 5 July 1881 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
3
Buckley had evidently asked CD to read the manuscript of her entry on Charles Lyell for the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Buckley 1883); see also letter to A. B. Buckley, 11 July 1881.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13234,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13234