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To J. D. Hague   20 February 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb. 20/72/

My dear Sir

I have no doubt that I owe to your great kindness the present received ⁠⟨⁠a⁠⟩⁠ few days ago of your magnificent work in quarto on Mining Industry, together with an atlas in folio.—1 I can assure you that I am fully sensible of this mark of your friendly feeling towards me. My sons have told me much of all that they saw in California & how greatly they were indebted ⁠⟨⁠to⁠⟩⁠ you for all sorts of assistance & kindness.2 They desire me to send you their very kind remembrances.

Pray believe me, My dear Sir | Yours sincerely & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Hague sent his volume, Mining industry, with its accompanying atlas, from the Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel. It was the third volume of the Report and was published in 1870.
2
George Howard Darwin and Francis Darwin had visited the United States in 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19). Hague had met CD in London in February 1871 (Hague 1884, p. 759).

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