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To John Murray   18 May [1860]1

Down Bromley Kent

May 18th

My dear Sir

I write one line to thank you very sincerely for your too magnificent present of six copies of my Journal.—   It looks excellently, & I am greatly pleased at my creditable appearance in a green coat.—2 With very many thanks

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The year is given by the publication of a reprint edition of Journal of researches.
2
The 1860 edition of Journal of researches, the tenth-thousand printed, was published in the same green cloth binding as Origin (Freeman 1977, p. 36). Previous editions published by Murray had been bound in red cloth.

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