To E. W. V. Harcourt   23 August [1856]1

Down Bromley Kent

Augt 23d.

My dear Sir

I have received Brehm all safe & am very much obliged for it, & will return it in 2 or 3 weeks time;2 I would not have kept it so long, but I am going out for a week.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 19 August [1856].
2
CD had asked to borrow Brehm 1831 in his letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 19 August [1856].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4598,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4598