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To an editor   12 October [1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 12th

Dear Sir

I can have no objection to the portrait & memoir of myself in your Review as proposed. The best photographs of me have been taken by Mr Rejlander, & as it will save you trouble I send you one.—2 I shd. be obliged for a copy of your Review, if you keep to your intention, as not living in London I may not hear when it is published.—3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the form of the address and its location in the top right-hand corner of the page; CD used this paper between May 1871 and January 1872.
2
There are copies of Oscar Gustav Rejlander’s photographs of CD in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 225: 114, DAR 257: 14); see also Prodger 2009, pp. 159 (reproduction of a photograph in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm) and 176 (reproduction of DAR 225: 114). The image in DAR 257: 14 is reproduced on p. as the frontispiece to this volume.
3
The review has not been identified.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8003,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8003