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To Giovanni Canestrini   17 May 1880

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

May 17th 1880

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your great kindness in having sent me your ‘Teoria &c’, which seems beautifully got up & very well illustrated by figures.—1

With much respect | I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

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Canestrini’s La teoria di Darwin criticamente esposta (Darwin’s theory critically explained; Canestrini 1880) contains twenty-five figures. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12609,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12609