Ɛpsilon

To James Paget   3 May 1875

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

May 3 | 1875.

My dear Paget

I am very much obliged for your kind present of your Lectures. From their titles I feel sure that they will, like all your other writings which I have read, interest me greatly.1

The vivisection question seems to be going on in every way as well as cd be desired.2

My dear Paget | yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

LS

1
Paget’s Clinical lectures and essays (Paget 1875) contained sixteen essays, fifteen of which had already been published in medical journals or hospital reports. There is an annotated copy of Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology (Paget 1853) in Darwin Library–CUL, and a copy of the third edition of this work in Darwin Library–Down (Marginalia 1: 658–61).
2
Paget had given his support for a vivisection bill prepared by CD and his friends to be presented to Parliament (see letter to from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 April [1875].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9966,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9966