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To William Pengelly   19 March [1873]

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Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Pengelly
Date:  19 Mar [1873]
Classmark:  Documenting History (dealers) (1995)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8817

From William Pengelly   17 March 1873

Summary

CD’s notice in Nature [Collected papers 2: 171–2] induces WP to send letters from correspondents recounting stories of a dog that learned to open a door and of another that found his way home from London to Cowes.

Author:  William Pengelly
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1873
Classmark:  Pengelly ed. 1897, pp. 229–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8813
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