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To H. B. Dobell   6 March [1863]1

Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E.

March 6

My dear Sir

I am extremely much obliged to you for your great kindness and all the large amount of trouble which you have taken to oblige me.2 Your information is sufficient: I feared that Dr. C. might not have given whole case.3

With very sincere thanks | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

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1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from H. B. Dobell, 5 March 1863.
3
See letter from H. B. Dobell, 5 March 1863 and n. 2. In Variation 2: 14 n., CD cited Carpenter 1854 in his discussion of this case of the regeneration of amputated supernumerary digits. There is a copy of Carpenter 1854 in the Darwin Library–CUL, in which the relevant passage is annotated (see Marginalia 1: 154–8).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4030,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4030