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To Axel Blytt   13 July 1881

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

July 13th 1881

Dear Sir

I thank you for your extremely kind letter of the 8th. & for your essay on climates, which I shall be very glad to read, as I well remember the interest which your original memoir caused me.—1 I thank you, also, for your photograph which I have added to my collection,2 & have much pleasure in sending you my own.—

With all good wishes, believe me, Dear Sir, yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
Blytt’s letter of 8 July 1881 has not been found. There is a copy of Blytt’s paper ‘Die Theorie der wechselnden kontinentalen und insularen Klimate’ (The theory of changing continental and insular climates; Blytt 1882) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Blytt’s original memoir was his Essay on the immigration of the Norwegian flora during alternating rainy and dry periods (Blytt 1876); see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Axel Blytt, 28 March 1876.
2
Blytt’s photograph has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13244,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13244