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To Michael Foster   29 [June 1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]

29

My dear Sir

Many many thanks for the Curare received last night.: I will be very careful not to waste it.—2 I shall not use it for about 3 weeks, when I intend leaving home for a month & will then resume my work, as an amusement, on Drosera.— I am so glad to have got the Curare. If you pay me a visit, I shall like to explain what I intend trying.— What you say, however, about Amœbæ is a damper.3

Yours gratefully | Ch. Darwin

Postmark: JU 29 71

1
The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871].
3
See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4, and letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871]. CD spent most of August 1871 at Haredene in Albury, Surrey.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7837,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7837