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To Hugh Falconer   4 October [1862]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Oct 4th

My dear Falconer

I returned home on Tuesday evening & on Thursday I returned your M.S., with my letter, to Park Crescent, & there I have no doubt you will find it safe.—2 I shd. indeed be grieved if it were lost.—

In Haste | Ever yours | C. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 October 1862 (Correspondence vol. 10).
2
In his letter of 3 October 1862 (Correspondence vol. 10), Falconer asked CD whether he had received the manuscript that Falconer had sent him on 27 September 1862. The manuscript was part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863). CD commented favourably on the manuscript in his letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] (Correspondence vol. 10).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3751F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3751F