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To J. J. Moulinié   22 February [1869]1

Down Bromley Kent [6 Queen Anne Street]

Feb. 22d

My dear Sir

I am truly obliged to you for your extraordinary kindness in having taken such great trouble in translating the long paper & copying the diagrams. The paper has interested me much, not only in showing so much variation & the effects of selection within a short space of time; but more especially from the variations having been different under different conditions. For of such cases I have very few instances.— I shd never have heard of this paper.—2

My health continues the same; I am always what is called “a poor Devil”; but am able to work for two or three hours daily.—

Mrs. Darwin begs to be kindly remembered to you,3 & with my best thanks pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin.

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. J. Moulinié, 15 February 1869.
2
See letter from J. J. Moulinié, 15 February 1869 and nn. 1 and 2. Moulinié had summarised in English an article by Elie Abel Carrière (Carrière 1869a), published in a French weekly agricultural journal, on selective breeding of wild radishes. CD later received a copy of a revised version of the article (Carrière 1869b) from the author.
3
Moulinié had visited CD on 31 August 1868 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6625,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6625