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From I. E. Aylmer   5 December 1867

Havelock House | Shanklin | Isle of Wight

5th. Dec 67.

Dear Sir

I return your proofs, with hearty thanks for your courtesy and kindness.1

I have made extracts from them in my paper on Chillingham, and if you will permit me, I shall let you see the proof in order, that you may be perfectly satisfied with the use I have made of your labour.2

Lord and Lady Tankerville3 or old friends of mine— And I was very anxious to do justice to their beautiful place and fine old Cattle, partly as a return for much personal kindness—and partly because being a Northumbrian myself, I like our county to have some honour paid it in the current literature of the day.

Believe me yours | gratefully | I E Aylmer

1
CD had sent Aylmer proof-sheets of Variation containing information on the wild white cattle of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. See letter from I. E. Aylmer, 18 November 1867 and n. 1.
2
The proof has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. However, Aylmer’s anonymous article included a substantial quotation from CD (see letter from I. E. Aylmer, 18 November 1867, n. 1).
3
Charles Augustus Bennet, sixth earl of Tankerville, and Olivia Bennet.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5706,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5706