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To Hugo de Vries   [December 1881?]1

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

My dear Sir

Very many thanks for your clear & full letter, which has been a great relief to my mind, for I feared that I might have blundered in some incomprehensible manner.2

Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
The date is conjectured from a note in an unknown hand.
2
The letter has not been found, but see the letter from Hugo de Vries, 15 October 1881. In that letter, De Vries mentioned that he was going to repeat some of CD’s observations on worms. The missing letter may have discussed these observations.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13523F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13523F