To ?   6 January [1873 or 1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 6th

Sir

If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.— Publisher Murray2

Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

The year range is established by the printed stationery, with the address in the centre; CD used this type of notepaper from mid-January 1872 until November 1874.
CD’s publisher was John Murray.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7429A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7429A