From Hugh Browne   17 May 1872

Dear Sir

The following note in Moore’s diary may be worth your notice as an hereditary peculiarity—6 Moore’s Memoirs by Russell page 46.—¹

“In talking of handwriting & its being sometimes hereditary, Brougham² said he had found some of his gr father’s which exactly resembled his own, tho’ the gr father had died before he was born & his father’s writing was altogether different.”—

Your prophesy as to our family color blindness comes true—³ a few days since my brother Michael brought his eldest boy—2$\frac{1}{2}$ years old—& boasted he had not had it, the boast was hardly uttered when the lad looked at a band in my wifes dress & pronounced it blue—⁴ It was rose color.—

It is surprising how many fail at a distance to distinguish the scarlet flowers or fruit of japonica⁵ from the leaves— I cannot.

Please don’t waste your time in replying unless you want something that I can supply.—

Yours truly | Hugh Browne

Chas Darwin Esq | Down Beckenham Kent