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From Emma Darwin to ?   [October 1874 – April 1882]1

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

Dear Sir

Mr Darwin begs me to say that he is sorry he cannot give you a sitting in London—

I send a photograph which we think an excellent likeness, of which my son would lend you the negative after he has had some more copies taken.2

Mr Darwin would be happy to give a sitting here if it was wished for.

I should be glad to have the photograph returned as we consider it the best likeness of Mr Darwin that we have—

Dear Sir | yours faithfully, | E. Darwin

1
The date is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from November 1874, and Emma from October 1874.
2
Emma probably sent one of the photographs taken by Leonard Darwin in the 1870s (Browne 2009, p. 560).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13792,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13792