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To L. H. Morgan   20 January 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 20. 1872

My dear Mr Morgan

I have received, this morning, your grand work on Consanguinity &c & am astonished at the labour which it must have cost you.1

I am greatly indebted to this proof of your kind feelings towards me & I remain | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
There is a copy of the 1871 printing of Morgan’s Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family (Morgan 1870) in the Darwin Library–Down. Morgan had sent CD an advance copy of the last chapter (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter from L. H. Morgan, 9 August 1870).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8167,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8167