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From H. W. Bates   24 October 1863

22. Harmood St. Haverstock Hill. N.W.

24 Oct 1863

My dear Mr Darwin

I just send you a line to say that I posted the tract containing Asa Gray’s criticisms immediately after receiving your note.1

The sad news conveyed in your letter has caused great sorrow to myself & those of our friends to whom I have communicated it. Of course much correspondence is out of the question until you are better   therefore several small matters I wished to mention must remain for another time

Yours sincerely | H W Bates

1
The letter to Bates has not been found. Asa Gray reviewed Bates 1861 and ‘Two forms in species of Linum’ in the September issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts (A. Gray 1863a and 1863c). CD had sent Bates copies of the reviews. See the letter from Asa Gray, 1 September 1863, and the letter from H. W. Bates, 29 September 1863.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4323,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4323