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To T. L. Brunton   [4 August 1881]1

6. Queen Anne St.

My dear Sir

I want very much to see you for 10 minutes, & I leave London early tomorrow morning.2 Will you kindly send me a verbal message at what hour I might call, after 4 oclock, for I am engaged till then. If not at home when this note arrives would you be so good as to take the trouble to send me word here, when I may call.

I am greatly obliged to you for your aid.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by a note in Francis Darwin’s hand on a copy of the letter in DAR 160: 350; the month and day are established by CD’s stay at the house of his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, from 3 to 5 August 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
2
A copy of the letter in DAR 160: 350 contains an annotation by Francis Darwin: ‘Science Defense Association interest in’. For more on this, see the letter from T. L. Brunton, 27 November 1881, and the letter to T. L. Brunton, 17 December 1881.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Anne St.] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9907,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9907