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To Samuel Smiles   15 December 1876

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

Dec 15. 1876

Dear Sir,

I am very much obliged for the kind present of your ‘Life of a Scotch Naturalist’ which I have begun to read. I shall be greatly surprised if it does not interest me in a high degree, for I have read with extreme pleasure every one, as I believe, of your other biographies.1

I remain dear Sir, yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

LS

1
CD had received Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876). Smiles had written many biographies, including George Stephenson, and Boulton and Watt (Smiles 1857 and 1865).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10720,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10720