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To Leonard Blomefield   17 April [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 17th

My dear Jenyns

I cannot begin a note to you in any other way, though no doubt you are well accustomed to your new name.2 I write merely to thank you for your essay on Local Biology.3 It has interested me much; & I doubt whether there is another man who could have collected so many valuable suggestions & curious facts.— I hope that you keep fairly well. As for myself I am much as usual, but with care & much discomfort am able to work a few hours almost every day.

With cordial recollections of old times, believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the publication date of Blomefield’s essay (see n. 3, below).
2
In 1871, Leonard Jenyns received a considerable property on condition that he change his name to Blomefield (ODNB).
3
CD’s annotated copy of Blomefield’s paper ‘Local biology’ (Blomefield 1872) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8863,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8863