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To John Phillips   28 January [1856]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 28th

My dear Phillips

I have received this morning your very kind present;2 but I am almost ashamed to accept so beautiful a book in return for my old & dry works on Rocks.—3

With very sincere thanks. Believe me. Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856].
2
Phillips 1855. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. The work includes a series of views of Yorkshire taken from sketches by Phillips.
3
Geology of ‘Beagle’. See letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856], n. 6.

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1828,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1828