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To F. G. M. Powell   [after 3 December 1881]1

[Down.]

My dear Sir

I thank you for sympathetic & very kind letter, & for the present of your sermons.2 I have been occasionally well abused; but it has annoyed me hardly at all, as I am conscious of having endeavoured to discover the truth to the best of my ability & after long-continued work.— Mr. H. Allen has been staying here for a couple of days & he tells me how nobly you declare for the causes which you believe to be just & in doing this you exposed yourself to the total injustice of your opponents.3 Permit me to add that I honour such conduct remain Dear Sir | yours fy | C. D

ADraftS

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from F. G. M. Powell, 3 December 1881.
3
Henry George Allen visited Down on 3 and 4 December 1881 (letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, 4 December 1881 (DAR 210.9: 279)). He was Emma Darwin’s cousin, and MP for Pembroke.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 very] above del ‘extremely’
1.5 declare] above del ‘fight’
1.5 which] after del ‘in’
1.5 to be just] interl
1.6 you] interl
1.6 total] after del ‘[sadism] &’
1.7 remain] after del ‘from the bottom of my heart. & I’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13529,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13529