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To ?   5 October 1881

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

Oct 5. 1881

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged for your kind & courteous note.1 Writing is so laborious to me & loses so much time, that during many years I have resolved never to write in periodicals, & I am sorry to say that I cannot break my resolution, as it wd. make my declining the next time that I am asked; much more difficult.—2

Believe me my dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The note has not been found and the correspondent has not been identified.
2
The periodical 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).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 I have] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13373F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13373F