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To A. W. Bennett   9 November [1869]1

Down

Nov. 9th

Dear Sir

Absence from home has prevented my returning the Proofs at once.—2 I have made one or two trifling corrections. The notice seems to me very good & is, I am sure, highly honourable to me.—3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. I hope you will kindly send me a copy of your Journal4

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. W. Bennett to Nature, 8 November 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17).
2
CD was visiting his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, in London from 1 to 9 November 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17, Appendix II). This was the only year in which he arrived home at Down on or very shortly before 9 November.
3
Bennett published a note in the second issue of the newly established journal Nature summarising correspondence he had had with CD about the fertilisation of winter-flowering plants (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from A. W. Bennett to Nature, 8 November 1869). The letter was published in Nature on 11 November 1869. Bennett was the biological subeditor of Nature.
4
CD made his first comments on Nature in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] (Correspondence vol. 17).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6980,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6980