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To the Admiralty   9 [May 1846]1

Down near Bromley | Kent

Saturday 9th.

My dear Sir

I should be very much obliged if you would kindly forward the accompanying letter to Sulivan in the Philomel,2 & should you be sending any package, also, the accompanying, paper,3 which relates to a subject, on which he has made some observations at the Falklands.—

I hope you will excuse me troubling you & believe me | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin.

1
9 May was the only Saturday the 9th in 1846.
2
H.M.S. Philomel, then returning to England, arrived 19 June 1846 (Log of Philomel, Public Record Office, ADM 53/1025).
3
‘On the geology of the Falkland Islands’ (read 25 March 1846), Collected papers 1: 203–12.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 also] ‘al’ over ‘the’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-694,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-694