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To ?   1 July 1871

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 1. 1871

Dear Sir

I am sorry to say that the state of my health renders it impossible for me to attend the British Assoc. at Edinburgh, which I should otherwise have much enjoyed.—1

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
The annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Edinburgh from 2 to 9 August 1871 (Report of the 41st meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1871): lxxxiii).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7844,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7844