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To William Samuel Symonds   26 March [1861]1

Down Bromley Kent

March 26th

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your kind present of your volume on Old Bones & for the very flattering manner in which you allude to my work.—2

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely & obliged | C. Darwin

1
The identity of the recipient and the year are provided by the reference to Symonds 1861 (see n. 2, below).
2
Symonds was the author of Old bones; or, notes for young naturalists (Symonds 1861). Symonds frequently cited CD’s views in the book and referred to Origin as a ‘remarkable work’ (ibid., p. 33). The book is not in the Darwin Library.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3099,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3099