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To Michael Foster   25 April [1874]1

2. Bryanston St. Portman Sqe.

Ap. 25th

(I stay here till Tuesday night)2

Dear Dr. Foster.

The parcel of circulars has been forwarded to me from Down, & I have been racking my brains with no success, to think of anyone beyond the names which I formerly mentioned.—3 Wd. Prof Turner of Edinburgh4 know any rich Scotchman to whom to send it?—

I have seen Sir C. Lyell & he will give 25£, & Busk 10£.5 Would it be worth while to add in M.S to any circulars not sent out these sums, partly as Lyell’s & Busk’s names are good, & partly as a guide. Busk remarked that the printed list might terrify some who would & could give smaller sums.

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 24 April 1874.
2
CD stayed with Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from Tuesday 21 to Wednesday 29 April (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
Foster had prepared a printed appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples for circulation to prospective subscribers (see letter to Michael Foster, 23 April [1874] and n. 2).
4
William Turner was professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh (ODNB).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.3 Tuesday night] after del ‘Down | Beckenham, Kent.’
2.2 any] above del ‘the’
2.2 & Busk’s] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9427,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9427