From B. W. Savile   10 October 1881

Dear Sir—

Absence from home during two days has prevented from acknowledging before today, as I now do, the safe receipt of your Second Letter—¹ And I beg to render you my sincere thanks for y^r. kindness in replying to my questions, by which I am enabled to understand, better than I did before, the hypothesis of the doctrine of Evolution.

I beg to remain, Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully | B. W. Savile

C. Darwin Esq