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To ?   9 August [1872–4]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Augt. 9th

Dear Sir

I thank you for your kind & most courteous note.— I will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.—2

Dear sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

1
The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between 1872 and 1874. A note on the back of the letter reads ‘for Mr Kerr’; Mr Kerr may be the addressee, but he has not been further identified.
2
The error and the publication in which it occurred have not been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8460F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8460F