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To Richard Kippist?1   1 February [1860]2

Down Bromley Kent

Wednesday Feb: 1st

Dear Sir

The Carrier3 shall call tomorrow (Thursday) morning & bring some Books & I shd be much obliged if you would give him (if you have) the 1st . &—likewise the 10th . Editions of the Vestiges of Creation4    Also the 2d Edit of Baden Powell’s Unity of Worlds.5

No other Editions will be of any service.—6

Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

1
CD had an arrangement with the Linnean Society of London enabling him to borrow books from the society’s library (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855]). Kippist was the librarian of the society.
2
The year is given by the preparation of the historical preface for Origin (see n. 6, below).
3
George Snow operated a parcels carrier service between London and Down.
4
[Chambers] 1844 and 1853. CD owned a copy of the sixth edition of this work (1847). It is in the Darwin Library–CUL.
5
The second edition of Baden Powell’s Essays on the spirit of the inductive philosophy (Powell 1856) was much enlarged. See CD’s two letters to Baden Powell, 18 January [1860].
6
CD cited these works in the historical sketch added to the revised and augmented American edition of Origin and included in all subsequent editions.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2678,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2678