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To ?   2 January 1878

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

Jan 2. 1878

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your note & the specimen. The facts are new to me, & will be of use whenever I have to bring out a new edit of my ‘Forms of Flowers’1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Forms of flowers was published in July 1877 (Correspondence vol. 25, Appendix II). The second edition was published in 1880. The correspondent, note, and specimen have not been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11308A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11308A