To Adolph Reuter 17 April 1873

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

April 17/73

Dear Sir

I thank you for your kind letter & curious photograph.—¹ I shall be much pleased to receive any further communication on domestic productions, but let me urge you not to send me anything valuable, unless you publish it elsewhere, for I am growing old & know not whether I shall ever have strength & time to continue my former researches.

Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

See letter from Adolph Reuter, 6 April 1873 and nn. 1 and 3.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8864,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8864

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Thanks for letter and curious photographs. Urges AR not to send anything valuable unless he publishes it elsewhere because CD is growing old and may not have strength and time to continue his former researches.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-8864
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Adolf Reuter
Date: 17 Apr 1873
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 226–227)
Physical description: 1p

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To Adolph Reuter 17 April 1873

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