To D. Appleton & Co.   16 March 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

March l6. 1872

Dear Sir

I received a short time since your letter of Feb. 23d, in which you give me so gratifying an account of the sale of my works.—1 I have heard from Mr. Layton that he will pay me in a few days a cheque for £427"s13"d8, & I now write to you to express my acknowledgments for this remuneration which I consider magnificent.2

I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

To | Messrs Appleton & Co

I am very much pleased that my old Journal of Travels3 has sold pretty well.—

2
See letter from D. Appleton & Co., 23 February 1872 and n. 1. No letter from Charles Layton on the subject has been found.
3
Journal of researches US ed. (1871). See letters from D. Appleton & Co., 17 February 1872 and n. 2, and 23 February 1872.

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