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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. Letter Signed ("Ch. Darwin"), with Autograph Postcript, 3 pp, 8vo (bifolium) on Down letterhead, Bromley, Kent, June 2, [late 1870s],
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DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882.
Letter Signed ("Ch. Darwin"), with Autograph Postcript, 3 pp, 8vo (bifolium) on Down letterhead, Bromley, Kent, June 2, [late 1870s], first page toned.
DARWIN COMMENTS ON HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT BY HIS SON AND ON HIS SECLUSION FROM SOCIETY. Darwin replies to an admirer referring to a Leonard Darwin photograph enclosed (not present here), his failing health and subsequent seclusion from society. He pens a postscript mentioning his collection of photographs. In part: "I enclose the only photograph which I have of myself made by one of my sons. I believe it is like but it makes me rather an awful old gentleman."
DARWIN COMMENTS ON HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT BY HIS SON AND ON HIS SECLUSION FROM SOCIETY. Darwin replies to an admirer referring to a Leonard Darwin photograph enclosed (not present here), his failing health and subsequent seclusion from society. He pens a postscript mentioning his collection of photographs. In part: "I enclose the only photograph which I have of myself made by one of my sons. I believe it is like but it makes me rather an awful old gentleman."
Saleroom notices
Letter dates from the 1860s. The photographic portrait in question was by his eldest son William Erasmus Darwin, not Leonard Darwin as mentioned in the catalogue description.

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