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To William Bowman   19 April [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 19th

My dear Bowman

I send by Railway today the book which you lent me.—2 I could not help looking through many parts; & my wonder is that any us have eyes in our heads, seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to.

Many thanks | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to William Bowman, 8 April [1872].
2
Bowman lent CD John Soelberg Wells’s A treatise on the diseases of the eye (Wells 1869; see letter from F. C. Donders, 1 April 1872 and n. 3).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8292,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8292