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To Patrick Geddes   20 December 1880

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

Dec 20th 1880

Dear Sir

You are perfectly welcome to copy for the Encyclop. Brit. any of the figures in my Insectivorous Plants.—1

Pray forgive the manner of directing the envelope, but no one in my house could read your signature.2

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Geddes’s article ‘Insectivorous plants’ was published in Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th ed., 13: 134–40. Of the sixteen illustrations, eight are from Insectivorous plants.
2
The letter from Geddes has not been found

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
2.1 manner] after del ‘add’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12928,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12928