My dear Sir
Your letter has followed me hither, where I am enjoying a holyday—3 And by the same post I have received the result of the last examination of data—4 It is vexatiously subversive of my former inferences, & really looks very much as if the gradual darkening of colour were the real cause, or main cause at least, of the whole set of phenomena—5 Now that I have got a trustworthy amanuensis6 I will have the 35–45 women abstracted from the books which furnished the original data for my paper of 1863;7 and when I get the result you shall have it at once—8
Yours very faithfully | John Beddoe
| July 13th 1863 to Aug 6. 1869 | |||||||||
| Women between 35 and 45 | |||||||||
| Single | Married | ||||||||
| Red | Fair | Brown | Dk. B. | Black | Red | Fair | Brown | Dk. B. | Black |
| or | or | ||||||||
| Lt. B. | Lt. B. | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 28 | 95 | 60 | 26 |
| Total 32 | Total 225 | ||||||||
| Women between 25 and 45 | |||||||||
| 11 | 17 | 51 | 44 | 5 | 23 | 83 | 218 | 310 | 42 |
| Total 130 | Total 678 | ||||||||
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6809,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on