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To Rudolph Heine   16 March [1865]1

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

Mar 16

Sir

I am much obliged for your letter of Mar 10th.

I am pleased to hear that you have been interested in my work on the Origin of Species. Your law of inheritance I dare say is true & may have some bearing on the modification of species; but I fear it would be difficult to prove it with sufficient clearness to allow of its use2

I beg to remain | Dear Sir | Yours respectfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
An incomplete version of this letter, dated 15 March [1865] and lacking the first sentence and the valediction, was published in Correspondence vol. 13, based on a transcription in a Stargardt sale catalogue. This transcription is from a facsimile in a Christie’s sale catalogue. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Rudolph Heine, 10 March 1865 (Correspondence vol. 13).
2
See letter from Rudolph Heine, 10 March 1865 and n. 2 (Correspondence vol. 13).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-4786F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-4786F