To Charles Lyell 6 September [1861]

Down Bromley Kent

Sept 6^th.

My dear Lyell

I think the enclosed is worth your reading.¹ I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder from beginning to end.²

Eheu. Eheu. | Ever yours | C. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘1861’

Letter from T. F. Jameson, 3 September 1861.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3246,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3246

Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].

"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9.