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To F. B. Goodacre   5 January 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 5. 1875

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for yr kind note with the extracts in which you do me much honour.1 I shall be pleased to have your essay dedicated to me; but I fear that I shall not be able to give any assistance towards your excellent scheme as owing to the state of my health I am forced to live a very retired life.2

With my thanks I remain dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Goodacre’s note and extracts have not been found.
2
Goodacre dedicated his essay Hemerozoology (Goodacre 1875) to CD. There is a lightly annotated copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; see also letter to F. B. Goodacre, 20 February 1875. In his essay, Goodacre included a plan for establishing a museum of domestic animals; he had written to CD about this in his letter of 7 February 1873 (Correspondence vol. 21).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9801,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9801