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To W. C. Holbrook   27 July 1881

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

July 27th 1881

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your letter. Although I know little about human anatomy, it always interests me extremely to hear about the characters of ancient human beings, & I rejoice at the rapid progress of Anthropology in your country, as in other parts of the world.1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Holbrook’s letter has not been found. Holbrook published a brief notice, ‘Moundbuilder skeletons’, on skeletons found in burial mounds in the Rock River Valley, Illinois, in Science, 22 October 1881, pp. 504–5.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13253F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13253F