To James Crichton-Browne   31 January [1870]1

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Jan. 31,

My dear Sir

I am very sorry to trouble you again, but I should be very much obliged if you could soon return to me Duchenne, with, I hope, some notes, as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me.2 Please address parcel “Ch. Darwin, Esq., Orpington Station, Kent, Per S.E. Railway”.

Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. If not asking too much trouble, will you let me have a line that I may know when parcel is sent off.

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17).
2
CD had lent Crichton-Browne his copy of Duchenne 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June 1869 and n. 9). For Crichton-Browne’s earlier notes, see ibid., letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869, enclosure 2, and letter from James Crichton-Browne, 1 June 1869. Crichton-Browne had not written to CD since June 1869 owing to illness (see letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7089,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7089