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To T. L. Brunton   11 October 1881

Down | Beckenham Kent

Oct 11th./81

My dear Dr. Brunton

I thank you much for so kindly sending me a whole collection of your writings— I feel altogether unworthy of them, excepting in so far as the subjects which you discuss yourself interest me, notwithstanding my ignorance1

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

I have just published a little book wh. I fear will hardly interest you, but I will send a copy by this post—2

Copy

1
There is an article written by Brunton and a colleague, Joseph Fayrer, in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (Brunton and Fayrer 1873–4), but CD had received it in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Joseph Fayrer, 25 June 1874). No other work by Brunton has been found in the Darwin Libraries at CUL or Down.
2
CD sent a copy of Earthworms, which was published on 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13391,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13391