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To Giovanni Canestrini   26 August [1877]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

August 26

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent me your new work. I regret even more than I have ever done before that I cannot read Italian, so that I can get only parts translated to me.— The title of your work is a very great honour to me.2

Believe me dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
The year is established by the publication date of Canestrini’s book (see n. 2, below).
2
Canestrini had sent a copy of his book La teoria dell’evoluzione, esposta nei suoi fondamenti, come introduzione alla lettura delle opere del Darwin e de’ suoi seguaci (The theory of evolution, explained in its fundamentals, as an introduction to the reading of the works of Darwin and his followers; Canestrini 1877). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11113,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11113