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To Francis Galton   1 August [1872]

Aug. 1.—

I have just heard that our carrier, Mr Snow (put his name on address. ie “to care of Mr. Snow”) has returned to his former period, & leaves the Nag’s Head every Thursday morning.—1

C. Darwin

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1
George Snow operated a weekly carrier service between Down and the Nag’s Head in London on Thursdays (Post Office directory of the six home counties 1870). Galton evidently wanted to send CD one of the rabbits on which he had been experimenting (see letters to Francis Galton, 23 January [1872] and n. 2, and 9 August [1872]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8442,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8442