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To ?   [1874–5?]1

Dear Sir

Although I read with great interest & formed a high opinion of the value of one of your papers, I shd. consider it so unauthorised a piece of presumption on my part to express any opinion whatever on the merits of a candidate in chemistry, that I am sorry to say I cannot accede to your desire.

Pray excuse me & believe me Dear Sir | Yours—— | C. Darwin

Draft

1
The date is conjectured from the location in the archive of the original, between a run of drafts from 1875 and a run from 1874. The correspondent has not been identified.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 whatever] interl
1.3 in chemistry] after del ‘for the Professor is in’
1.4 I] after del ‘that’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9217,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9217