CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) Autograph letter signed 'Charles Darwin' to Lord Sackville Cecil.

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Down house, June 8th, 1876 Header printed in the corner with his address, 'Down/ Beckenham, Kent./Railway Station/Orpington. S.E.R.' In English. 2 pp. 20,5 х 13 cm His sister (Caroline Wedgwood, 1800-1888) 'has arrived safely at Leith Hill Place', Darwin thanks him for his 'unbounded kindness… advice & intervention' in arranging a 'special train' for her, '...Whether she will ever recover is very doubtful after so terrible an illness, but her husband is old & delicate, & if he had been taken ill in the same small sea-side villa, it would have killed her with distress...'. Unpublished at the scholar's correspondence.