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To Arthur Hall   6 December 1881

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

Dec. 6th 1881

Dear Sir

I am obliged for your note. The case of the Roman Roads wd. have been well worth investigating, if I had known about them, when working on the subject.1

I remain, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

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1
See letter from Arthur Hall, 5 December 1881. Earthworms was published on 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977). CD had incorporated some new observations sent by readers of the book in the printing of the fifth thousand, which had recently gone to press (see letter to J. V. Carus, 26 November 1881).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13533A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13533A