To August Dupré 8 August 1881

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

Augt 8^th 1881.

Dear Sir

I thank you for your very kind note.—¹ The case which you give is a curious one, & it seems improbable in the highest degree that it sh^d. be one of accidental coincidence.—²

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

See letter from August Dupré, 6 August 1881.

This letter was found among the correspondence of CD with Raphael Meldola; it was apparently sent to Meldola by mistake, while CD’s letter to Meldola of 8 August 1881 was sent to Dupré (see letter to Raphael Meldola, 10 August [1881]).

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13281,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13281

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AD’s case is a "curious one"; it seems impossible to explain as accidental coincidence.

[Letter sent in error to Raphael Meldola and apparently never forwarded to AD.]

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13281
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: August Dupré
Date: 8 Aug 1881
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 29.

To August Dupré 8 August 1881

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