My dear Lubbock
I beg a million pardons. Abuse me to any degree but forgive me— it is all an illusion (but almost excusable) about the Bees.2 I do so hope that you have not wasted any time for my stupid blunder.— I hate myself I hate clover & I hate Bees—
In Haste to catch evening post | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
A burnout, maybe?
One historian described him as an “anxiety-ridden nerd”.
One of us!!!
He used to get indigestion really bad.
He also wasn’t a fan of the Oxford Comma, I see…
No, clearly this is Darwin finally admitting what we’ve known all along: the man is actually composed entirely of sentient clover and bees.
That explains all the buzz around Darwin at the time…
The text in OP’s post is the copied transcript of the letter (including the random number 2 used for citation). It contains no commas and uses an ampersand.
Maybe he wasn’t a fan of any commas.
