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To ?   21 August 1881

Down, Beckenham, Kent,

Aug. 21, 1881.

Dear Sir

I much regret that I cannot comply with your wishes. I have made it a rule (which I have rarely broken) never to write in Periodicals, because I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & it would consume much of my time.

Thanking you for your courteous note, & wishing continued success to your excellent Journal,1 I remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully Ch. Darwin

1
The note has not been found; the journal has not been identified. CD used similar wording in declining an invitation to write for Kosmos (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Ernst Krause, 27 May 1879).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13296A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13296A