The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, Francis. 1882.05.25. Letter asking for his father's letters. CUL-DAR185.113c. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. 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-DAR185 contains correspondence, largely with Darwin family members and drafts of Dust, Geol. Soc. Jrnl., 1846.

This may be a draft or proforma copy Francis sent to request Darwin's letters to be copied for Life and Letters.

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[In another hand:] 1/7/82 letters sent 8/7/82

Down Beckenham

May 25. 1882

Dear Sir

I shall be greatly obliged to you if you will have the kindness to allow me to see any letters written by my father, the late Charles Darwin which may be in your possession.

I should wish, with your consent, to make copies of them, and they should

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afterwards be carefully returned to you

It is of course fully understood that nothing in any letter which you may allow me to see will be made public without your full consent.

Dear Sir

yours faithfully

Francis Darwin

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)