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To F. E. Abbot   27 May [1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

May 27th

Private

Dear Sir

I am much obliged by your kind & interesting letter.2 What you tell me about the interest felt in America on my own & allied views surprises & highly gratifies me. The extract from the Liberal Christian is one of finest eulogiums I ever read on men of science.3

I have real pleasure in enclosing my photograph, as a very slight token of respect & of my thankfulness for your very kind letter4

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

P.S. I have received the Index & pamphlet, which I will soon read.5 My wife has read them & been struck with them.—

I have now read, Truths for the Times, & I admire them from my inmost heart, & I believe that I agree to every word

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from F. E. Abbot, 11 May 1871.
3
The Liberal Christian was a Unitarian periodical published in New York. The extract has not been found.
4
The photograph was an 1871 profile by Oscar Rejlander (John van Wyhe, personal communication).
5
Abbot evidently sent CD an issue of the Index (a weekly paper that he edited), and a copy of the pamphlet Truths for the times (Abbot [1870]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7771,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7771