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To Theodor Eimer   6 January [1882]1

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

Jan. 6th 1881.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me your work on the variation of the wall-lizard and for another paper.—2

Please accept my thanks and believe me | dear Sir | yours very faithfully | signed: Charles Darwin

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1
The transcription of this letter is from a handwritten copy made in 1953. A note on the copy says that the letter was addressed to ‘Prof. Dr. Th. Eimer’ and postmarked 1882. CD misdated the letter 1881.
2
The paper on the wall lizard (Lacerta muralis, a synonym of Podarcis muralis) is Eimer 1881a. The other paper is probably Eimer 1881b; a copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Eimer had sent a previous work on lizards in 1874 (Eimer 1873–4; see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Theodor Eimer, 12 December 1874).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13600F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13600F