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To M. T. Masters   [July 1875]1

I have told my publisher to send a copy of my Insectivorous Plants to your private address, which I hope that you will accept, & do not trouble yourself to acknowledge its receipt.—2

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

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1
The month and year are established by the publication date of Insectivorous plants (see n. 2, below).
2
Insectivorous plants was published by John Murray on 2 July 1875 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Masters’s name appears on the presentation list for the book (see Appendix IV).
3
The surviving page of the letter as sold by the dealer was tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants. The book was marked ‘From the author’ in John Murray’s clerk’s hand, and there was a pencil inscription ‘Masters’ on the front free endpaper.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10038F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10038F