From James Paget   [1872]1

I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you.2

The year is established by the printed source, which assigns this extract from a letter to 1872.
Paget’s lectures on the nervous mimicry of organic disease were published in the Lancet in 1873 (J. Paget 1873).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8130,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8130