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Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   5 December 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Dec 5. 1872

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your kind present. I can plainly see that your book will teach me much & interest me greatly.1

Pray accept my thanks | And believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P. S. | Have you seen a book which I have just published as ‘Expression?’2 If you have not, & would like to possess a copy, I shall be most happy to send one.

Footnotes

The book has not been identified.
Expression was published on 26 November 1872 (Freeman 1977).

Bibliography

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

Summary

Thanks for gift of a book, and offers to send copy of Expression.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8660H
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (3 November 2011)
Physical description
LS(A) 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8660H,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8660H.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)

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