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From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   6 May [1875]1

49, Queen Anne Street. | W.

May 6

Dear Mr. Darwin,

I write in haste to save this post.

I have only time to say that Lyon Playfair called on me yesterday to tell me that Lord Cardwell had accepted his Bill & undertaken to introduce it.2 Lord Shaftesbury has also agreed to support it3   Playfair will himself of course take charge of it in the H of Commons

I think it probable that Dr Playfair has himself written, but I send this note in case he should not4

Very truly yours | JB Sanderson

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 1 May [1875].
2
Playfair and Edward Cardwell supported the vivisection bill prepared by CD and his friends (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 1 May [1875]).
3
Lord Shaftesbury: the politician and reformer Anthony Ashley Cooper.
4
No letter from Playfair written at this time has been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9972A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9972A