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From Cuthbert Collingwood   20 February 1866

14 Gloucester Place | Greenwich SE

Feb 20/66

Dear Sir

I thank you sincerely for your kind letter,1 & I shall not fail to attend to the points mentioned in it. I hardly hoped to see you, but I could not leave without having had some communication with you, & am most desirous of obtaining suggestions by which I may turn my cruise to good account—2

I leave by the Marseilles mail next Monday

I am dear Sir | very truly yours | Cuthbert Collingwood

Charles Darwin Esq

2
Collingwood was about to leave to take up a post as naturalist aboard a ship on the China Sea; he gave an account of his journey in Collingwood 1868. See also letter from Cuthbert Collingwood, 15 February 1866 and n. 1.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5011,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5011