Here are a number of personal letters written by Charles Darwin. As far as we can tell here at The DNA Store, all letters are original and as described.
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Letter number 34 written by Charles Darwin

 

Description: DARWIN (Charles) autograph letter signed, 4pp., dated May 25th [1851], to Mrs Horner, [wife of Leonard Horner, a past President of the Geological Society of London], initially expressing thanks for their sympathy [presumably on the recent loss of Darwin''s daughter Annie]; Darwin writes: ''As you ask after Emma, I write a line to say that she and baby [Horace, born 13 May 1851] are essentially going on perfectly well, but she does not recover her strength or spirits so quickly as I could wish. In the profound quietudes of Down, all your schemes [?] and movements seem awfully bustling; ... pray give my very kind remembrances to Katharine and Capt. Lyell...''

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Letter 12 : Letter 13 : Letter 14 : Letter 15 : Letter 16 : Letter 17 : Letter 18 : Letter 19 : Letter 20
Letter 21 : Letter 22 : Letter 23 : Letter 24 : Letter 25 : Letter 26 : Letter 27 : Letter 28: Letter 29 : Letter 30 : Letter 31
Letter 32 : Letter 33 : Letter 34 : Letter 35 : Letter 36 : Letter 37 :Letter 38 : Letter 39 : Letter 40 : Letter 41 : Letter 42
Letter 43 : Letter 44 : Letter 45 : Letter 46 : Letter 47 : Letter 48 : Letter 49

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