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From E. H. Stanley   17 April 1875

F. O.

April 17. 1875.

Dear Mr Darwin,

I am honoured by your selection of me as the medium of your communication with the Government—and I have sent on your letter to the Home Secretary, in whose department the matter lies.1

Very faithfully yours | Derby

C. Darwin. Esq.

1
See letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875. The home secretary was Richard Assheton Cross; Stanley (Lord Derby) was the foreign secretary, and wrote from the Foreign Office. CD’s letter concerned a proposed bill to regulate vivisection.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9938,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9938