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From G. H. Darwin   [9 September 1881]1

New University Club, | St. James’s Street, S.W.

Friday

Dear Father

I have found the missing packet of forks at bottom of box at Herries.2 I shall leave it at 2 Bry. St. to come to Down, if I have time to go there—& if not take them to Camb. & bring them home when I come.3

Yrs affec | G H Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, [7 September 1881]. The Friday following 7 September 1881 was 9 September.
2
Herries, Farquhar, Chapman & Co. were a banking firm at 16 St James’s Street, London (Post Office London directory 1878). George had arranged a temporary executor’s account there following the death of Erasmus Alvey Darwin (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881).
3
Four Bryanston Street was the home of Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield. George lived in Cambridge.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13367,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13367