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From Francis Darwin   [after 22 May 1871]1

University “Pitt” Club

My dear Father

I am very much obliged for the cheque2   thank you very much for your offer about America, and for your letter which is awfully good—3 I went up to town on Monday and spoke to Stirling about the Hosp   as far as I can make out it is all right & I can get away by the 20th.4 I will write very soon & explain— I will see about the cuttle fish as well as I can—5 My Tatler is a great success6   Jackson7 is very much pleased with it & so are most people

Good bye dear Father | Yrs affec | FD

I will send a Tatler

1
The date is established by the reference to [Darwin] 1871 (see n. 6, below).
3
CD had offered to pay the expenses of Francis’s trip to the United States (see letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871]).
4
Edward Charles Stirling was studying medicine at St George’s Hospital, London, where Francis was also a student (Alum. Cantab.).
5
CD had inquired about the eyes of cephalopods, a class of molluscs that includes cuttlefish (see letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] and nn. 4 and 10).
6
Francis published a short article in the form of a letter on the melancholy of bachelors of arts in the Cambridge Tatler, 22 May 1871 ([F. Darwin] 1871).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7761G,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7761G