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To H. B. Tristram   8 September 1868

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

Sep 8 1868.

My dear Sir

Many thanks for you⁠⟨⁠r⁠⟩⁠ answers to my questions, whi⁠⟨⁠ch⁠⟩⁠ are quite sufficient for me & distinct. I am very much obliged for your kind offer of lending me the specimens but I think this wd be superfluous, & I shd be sorr⁠⟨⁠y⁠⟩⁠ that they should run an⁠⟨⁠y⁠⟩⁠ risk.1

Believe me | Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin

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1
See Correspondence vol. 16, letter from H. B. Tristram, 5 September 1868. CD’s questions, which were evidently about sexual difference in desert birds, have not been found. Tristram had offered CD specimens of birds.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6356F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6356F