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To G. J. Romanes   28 January 1882

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

Jan. 28th 1882

My dear Romanes

I feel bound to do what Mr Mc.Alister wishes, though it seems to me superfluous.—1 A page or two is all that I shall be able to write, & it will not be well done, but I will do my best, & no man can do more than that.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
CD may have met Donald MacAlister at the recent visit of the Sunday Tramps (letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 January 1882). On the membership of the Tramps, see ODNB s.v. ‘Sunday Tramps’. No other correspondence with Romanes about MacAlister has been found; the piece of writing has not been identified.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13647,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13647