To John Stevens Henslow   3 January [1856]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jany. 3d.

My dear Henslow

I have received your letter, the Report & pamplet,2 for all of which very many thanks.— Your letter has been of real use to me, in deciding what to do, which will be, in consequence, very little.—

What trouble Government does give about Clubs.— I have been two whole days in drawing up the annual & Quinquennial Returns!

Farewell with many thanks.— Pray remember to let me have the case of the Canada Geese with the seed in crop, if ever you shd. meet with it; as the means of distribution is, at present, a great hobby with me.—3

Farewell | C. Darwin

Your servants relation. failed, I presume, in getting the wild Carnation seed from Rochester.—

1
Dated by the relationship to an earlier letter to Henslow about local insurance clubs and societies (Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. S. Henslow, 26 December [1855]).
2
The report and pamphlet were sent in reply to CD’s request for advice on ‘various worrisome questions’ about the Down Friendly Club, of which he was treasurer. See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. S. Henslow, 26 December [1855].
3
See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. S. Henslow, 26 March [1855], n. 5.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1816,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1816