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To R. D. Fitzgerald   7 October 1878

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

Oct. 7th 1878

Dear Sir

I write a line to acknowledge safe receipt & to thank you for your great kindness in having sent me Part. 4. of your truly magnificent work on the Australian Orchids.— I hope soon to read it.1

I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Fitzgerald’s Australian orchids (R. D. Fitzgerald 1875–94) was published in parts, beginning in July 1875. CD had received the first three parts from Fitzgerald between 1875 and 1877 (see Correspondence vol. 23, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 16 July 1875, Correspondence vol. 24, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 18 August [1876], and Correspondence vol. 25, letter to R. D. Fitzgerald, 6 September 1877). CD’s copies are in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11719,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11719