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RECORD: Prestwich, Grace A. 1887.06.16. Letter to Francis Darwin. CUL-DAR107.33-34. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR107 contains recollections of Darwin for Life and Letters. 1882-7. Plant variation notes 1841-2.

The letter referred to was from Joseph Prestwich, 2 January 1880. Darwin replied the next day saying "I gave up the ghost with more sighs and groans than on almost any other occasion in my life." CCD28: 14.

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35 ST. GILES', OXFORD

16 June 1887

Dear Mr Darwin

The enclosed letter from your Father has been unexpectedly found.

When my husband was publishing his paper in the Phil Trans. 'on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy he consulted your

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Father, or rather wrote to Mr Darwin to enquire whether he still adhered to the opinions expressed in his early paper on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy', in which he attributed a marine origin to the 'Roads.' We think it

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a very characteristic letter.

Believe me yours very truly

Grace A. Prestwich

F. Darwin Esq

Cambridge

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