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To J. V. Carus   15 October [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 15th

My dear Sir

Many thanks. It is too late until more copies are printed off.— I saw a cast of the statue in Cambridge & copied the name with the greatest care!2 Yet, as on many other occasions, I have blundered.— No Frenchman has a greater tendency to spell all proper names wrongly than I have.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. V. Carus, 11 October 1872.
2
See letter from J. V. Carus, 11 October 1872 and n. 1. The reference is to the sculpture Arrotino.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8559,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8559