To ? 27 September [1871–81]¹

Down, Beckenham, Kent

September 27

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for the book which you have been so kind as to send to me, & for the flattering notice of me. I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar. I am sorry not to be able to comply with your request; but remarks of not a few lines in length will be worth nothing, & I have no strength at times to do more […]

Ch. Darwin.

The year range is established by the printed address, which is described in the sale catalogue. CD used two sorts of notepaper marked ‘Down, Beckenham, Kent.’ between 1871 and 1874, and notepaper with the railway station added after the same address until his death in April 1882.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13886,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13886

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Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13886
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Unidentified
Date: 27 Sept 1871
Date: 27 Sept 1872
Date: 27 Sept 1873
Date: 27 Sept 1874
Date: 27 Sept 1875
Date: 27 Sept 1876
Date: 27 Sept 1877
Date: 27 Sept 1878
Date: 27 Sept 1879
Date: 27 Sept 1880
Date: 27 Sept 1881
Sent from: Down
Source of text: David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005)
Physical description: * 2pp

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