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From W. E. Darwin   2 February [1882]1

Royal Southern Yacht Club

Feb 2nd

My dear Father,

I told Prof: Bonney that I was sure the story was apocryphal but I thought it worrth while sending on; for you to send him a card to say it was so.2 I hope your cold is better. G. is just off & is brisk.3 He has a lovely day.

Your affect son | W. E D

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from T. G. Bonney, 5 February 1882.
2
Thomas George Bonney had asked William Erasmus Darwin to confirm that an account of CD’s reaction to a supposed discovery of organic structures in meteorites by Otto Hahn was apocryphal (see letter from T. G. Bonney to W. E. Darwin, [before 2 February 1882]). For CD’s reaction to Hahn’s work, see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to Otto Hahn, 20 December 1880.
3
George Howard Darwin had just sailed from Southampton for Jamaica; he arrived in Jamaica at St Thomas on 15 February 1882 (letter from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [20 February 1882] (DAR 210.3: 40)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13654F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13654F