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To ?   7 June 1877

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

June 7. 1877

My dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for sending me your paper with its kind allusions to my last book.1 I leave home early tomorrow2 & will take your essay with me. The subject is a very interesting one. I fear that you will not care about my next book.3

My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
The paper has not been identified. CD’s most recent book was Cross and self fertilisation.
2
CD stayed at Leith Hill Place in Surrey, from 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II).
3
CD’s next book was Forms of flowers.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10989,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10989