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To J. B. Dancer   25 October [1881]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham. [66 Hills Road, Cambridge.]

Oct 25th

Dear Sir—

If you ever see a copy of my book, you will find that I have profited by your interesting notice.—1 I beg leave to thank you for your note2

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

ApcS

Postmark: OC 25 81

1
In Earthworms, p. 146, CD cited Dancer’s paper ‘On the transfer of subsoil to the surface by the agency of worms’ (Dancer 1877).
2
The note from Dancer has not been found.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’
1.1 find] above del ‘see’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13429,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13429