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Dear Sir, Having seen in "Nature" some time ago your expression of a wish to see any of the letters of your late father, it occurs to me to show you the enclosed note which I had the pleasure of receiving from him some years ago, & which I have come upon among some old letters.

It probably contains nothing of any interest to you in connection with your object, but you may perhaps care to see it. Along with it I send the little newspaper Report which called forth his kind note, a mere ephemeral production which pray do not trouble to return.

I shall always regret that I have never had the honour of visiting your illustrious father, but I do not the less venerate his genius or the less appreciate the value of the complete overturn which he made of the mode of interpreting animal structures in which I, in common with others of that time, had been educated.

I am

Yours faithfully

John Struthers

Francis Darwin Esq

Down, Beckenham

[Enclosure: Address on Evolution]