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To J. S. Henslow   20 February [1854]

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Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].

News of Lyell from Madeira.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  20 Feb [1854]
Classmark:  California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1554

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  • Leonard Jenyns , Henslow’s brother-in-law, had moved to Swainswick, near Bath in 1850. The Crystal Palace, main hall of the Great Exhibition of 1851, was re-erected in Sydenham, Kent, in 1854. CD evidently planned to visit it in the summer, since it was not opened until 10  …
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