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To ?   31 December [1861–8]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Dec 31st

Dear Sir

As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return—

Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

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The date range is established by the printed stationery, which is a type that CD used between May 1861 and April 1869.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13881A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13881A