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To ?   23 November 18811

Down, Beckenham, Kent

[…] I have some copies of some of my books from the library of my late brother,2 & I have much pleasure in sending three of them […] They consist of the Descent of Man— Variation of Animals & Plants & my Journal of Researches3 […]

incomplete4

1
The date is supplied by the sale catalogue.
2
Erasmus Alvey Darwin had died on 26 August 1881 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
3
Descent, Variation, and Journal of researches; it is not known which editions CD sent.
4
The original letter is complete and according to the sale catalogue is one page long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13507,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13507