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From G. H. Haydon   12 September 1881

Bethlem Royal Hospital. | London. S.E.

Sept 12th. 1881

Sir,

Referring to a quotation from a letter of yours inserted in the Evening Standard of the 5th inst I beg you will not consider me intrusive in sending some genuine Hudson’s Bay Mosquitoes sent me at my request a year or two ago, by my son, from Moose Factory—1

Let the minuteness of my offering plead for me in taking up a minute of your valuable time—

Your obedient Servant | Geo H Haydon

Darwin | &c &c &c

1
The London Evening Standard almost certainly carried the same letter that appeared in many newspapers, most prominently in The Times, 5 September 1881, p. 10, titled ‘Mr. Darwin on mosquitoes’ (see letter to Stephen Price, 1 September [1881]). Haydon’s son Walton Haydon was a surgeon with the Hudson’s Bay Company, at Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada; in 1881, he also made a collection of natural history specimens from the area, which was acquired by the United States National Museum (see Preble 1902, p. 27).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13333,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13333