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To James Orton   19 June 1876

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

June 19 1876

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in having sent me the new edition of your work ‘The Andes &c.’ which I see is much enlarged. I have no doubt that it will interest me as much as did the first edition. I have re-read with pride the dedication which is so honourable to me.1

You shew wonderful spirit in going again to the Amazon & I sincerely hope that you may be in every way successful.

My dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

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There is a very lightly annotated copy of Orton 1876 in the Darwin Library–Down (see Marginalia 1: 645). Orton had dedicated the first edition to CD and sent him a copy (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from James Orton, 4 January 1869 and n. 11, and Correspondence vol. 18, letter to James Orton, 24 February [1870]). CD’s annotated copy of the first edition is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 644).

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