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From G. H. Darwin   [after 15 October 1881]1

Dear Father

If you approve of the (sent by post) inscrip. will you send it over to Ffinden with the accompanying note & then forward it to W. E. D at Southampton.2 Ffinden’s answer had better be sent on to Wm..— My work really begins on Thursday morning.3

yours affec | G. H. Darwin

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, 15 October 1881.
2
See letter from G. H. Darwin, 15 October 1881. The inscription was for the gravestone of Erasmus Alvey Darwin, who was buried in the churchyard in Downe; George Sketchley Ffinden was vicar of the parish. George and William Erasmus Darwin were the executors of Erasmus’s will.
3
George had been appointed an additional examiner for the mathematical tripos in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University Reporter, 24 May 1881, p. 589).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13404,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13404