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To G. C. Robertson   19 February [1875]1

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

Feb 19.

Dear Sir

I did receive the circular but had no idea that it came from you.2 The plan of the new Journal seems excellent, & I hope it may be successful. I have so much work in Nat: History half-completed & which I desire to finish, that I am sorry to say I have resolved not to turn to any other subject, so that it is extremely improbable that I can ever be a contributer to your Journal.3

Believe me dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. C. Robertson, 17 February 1875.
2
Robertson had sent a second copy of a prospectus for the journal Mind (see letter from G. C. Robertson, 17 February 1875 and n. 2).
3
CD published an article in the July 1877 issue of Mind, ‘Biographical sketch of an infant’.

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