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To William Robinson   4 January 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 4th— 1876

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind gift of six copies of the “Garden”, with a drawing of myself & a notice of my works.1 This notice is drawn up in the most generous spirit & is highly honourable to me.

I thank the writer very sincerely & remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
Robinson had founded the Garden, a weekly illustrated horticultural magazine, in 1871. CD’s engraved portrait appeared as the frontispiece to the supplement to the issue of 1 January 1876, together with an unsigned account of his botanical publications (Garden 8 (1875): xi–xii).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10346,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10346