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To T. M. Hughes   13 March [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

March 13th

My dear Sir

I shall be glad & proud to aid in any way to do honour to the memory of Prof. Sedgwick, whose chair, I have not the least doubt you will most worthily fill.2

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the allusion to Hughes’s election to the Woodwardian Professorship of geology, which took place in 1873 (ODNB).
2
Hughes’s predecessor as Woodwardian Professor of geology at the University of Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick, died in January 1873 (ODNB). No other correspondence between CD and Hughes has been found; CD had supported the candidature of William Boyd Dawkins (letter to W. B. Dawkins, 3 February 1873).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8810,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8810