To ?   28 November [1873]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov. 28th

My dear Sir

You will remember my consulting you about some one to correct my M.S. & you recommending your cousin.2 When I got home, I thought of my second son,3 who is quite capable of undertaking the work & would like to do so, so that I shall have no occasion to ask for the assistance of your cousin.

Pray excuse the trouble & I remain | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The correspondent has not been identified. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to G. H. Darwin, 24 November 1873.
2
CD was looking for someone to assist him with the second edition of Descent (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 November 1873, and letter to G. H. Darwin, 20 November 1873).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9163,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9163