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To James Dawson   [3 June 1881]1

[Glenridding House, Patterdale.]

Dear Sir

I am greatly obliged to you for the very kind present of your very handsome volume ‘Aust aborig’2 which I shall be extremely glad to read & remain Dear Sir | Yours f. & obl. | C. D.

ADraftS

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Dawson, 30 July 1881.
2
CD’s lightly annotated copy of Australian aborigines (Dawson 1881) is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 greatly] above del ‘most’
1.2 ‘Aust] after del ‘on the’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13192,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13192