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To H. B. Baildon   9 June 1880

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

June 9th 1880

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your courteous note & for the gift of your ‘Spirit of Nature’.1

I will read your work as soon as I have finished a book in hand, & I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
A copy of Baildon’s book The spirit of nature: being a series of interpretative essays on the history of matter from the atom to the flower (Baildon 1880) is in the Darwin Library–Down. Baildon’s note has not been found.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12623,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12623