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To T. C. Eyton   25 August [1868]1

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

Aug. 25

Dear Eyton

I was very glad to see your hand-writing again, & I thank you sincerely for your intended present of your Osteology.2 How nobly & perseveringly you have stuck to your arduous task!

I had heard of your skeleton of Opisthocomus.—3 I am sorry to hear about your eyes. I shd. have very much liked to have been at Norwich; but my weak health rendered it impossible.4 Oh for those good old days when I hunted with your Harriers & fished at Eyton: those were happy times for me.5

With many thanks & all good wishes   Believe me Dear Eyton | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from T. C. Eyton, 23 August [1868].
2
In his letter of 23 August [1868], Eyton said he was sending CD a copy of the main part of his Osteologia avium (Eyton 1867–75).
5
CD had hunted with Eyton in 1830 (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [8 October 1830]). Eyton’s home was Eyton Hall, in Wellington, Shropshire (ODNB).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6331,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6331