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To John Murray   13 July [1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 13

My dear Mr Murray

Many thanks for your kind present of the Q. Review. I have read only a few pages; but I see it is a cutting article, & apparently worthy of Mr. Mivart’s skill.2

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to St George Jackson Mivart’s anonymous review of Descent (see n. 2, below).
2
Mivart’s review of Descent was published in the Quarterly Review for July 1871 ([Mivart] 1871c). Murray was the publisher of the Quarterly Review.

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