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To W. D. Crick   10 March [1882]1

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

March 10th

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your interesting note.2 I have been very unwell for several days & doubt whether I can go to London on the 15th, as I had intended, but if unable I will send the shell by Post to B. Museum. for correct name.—3 While looking over some M.S. notes the other day I came across 2 analogous cases, so I will draw up a little article for Nature & send all the cases.— I will forward a copy to you.4

Excuse hurry | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. D. Crick, 9 March 1882.
3
In the event, CD did not go to London. CD did not send the shell to the British Museum, but to John Gwyn Jeffreys, an expert conchologist (see letter to W. D. Crick, 23 March 1882).
4
CD’s article, ‘Dispersal of freshwater bivalves’, was published in Nature, 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.4 M.S.] added in margin

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13722,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13722