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ALS signed “Ch. Darwin,” one page, 5 x 8, Down, Beckenham, Kent, Railway Station letterhead, November 11, 1881. Handwritten letter to Julius Frazelle Galbraith, in full: "I thank you for your kindness in having written me so long a letter, but I can assure you that there is not a naturalist in the world who would credit that germinating seeds could be developed into animals of any kind. There was plenty of time and means for the indefinite multiplication of innumerable kinds of animals in the cask." In very good to fine condition, with light soiling and staining.
The recipient, J. F. Galbraith of Nelsonville, Manitoba, wrote Darwin a three-page letter on October 20, 1881, in which he recounts an incident of the development of worms in a barrel of wheat, noting that he had pondered Darwin's view that plants and animals may have had a common ancestor. Darwin tactfully sets him straight. A desirable scientific letter by the great naturalist.
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