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To Richard Owen   [21 April 1846]1

Down Bromley Kent

Tuesday

My dear Owen

I am very anxious to have to have ten minutes talk with you, chiefly about the mammifers of the Plata,2 & will call on you on Thursday morning at about ten oclock, if you will excuse so early an hour. If you cannot see me, perhaps you wd be so kind as to send me a line to save me trouble to, “7 Park St Grosvenor Sqr”

I have commenced your British Fossils3 with very great interest

Most truly yours | C. Darwin

1
The conjectured date is based on CD’s record of having finished reading Owen’s British fossil mammals (R. Owen 1846c) on 9 May 1846 (DAR 119; Vorzimmer 1977, p. 135) and on a visit to London recorded in CD’s Account Book (Down House MS) on Thursday, 23 April.
2
CD may have sought the interview to go over his summary of ‘Localities within the region of the Pampas where great bones have been found’ (South America, pp. 106–7). See also letter from G. R. Waterhouse, [30 March 1846].
3
R. Owen 1846c. CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.2 on Thursday] ‘on’ over illeg
1.4 save me] ‘me’ interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-959,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-959