To A. C. Ramsay   9 November [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov 9th

My dear Prof Ramsay

I am very much obliged for your kind present of your Physical Geology &c.

I read the first Edit, but I will certainly read again the present one, for I am sure it will interest & instruct me, as have all your writings.—2

Believe me | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

The year is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between 1872 and 1874, and by the reference to Ramsay 1872 (see n. 2, below).
There are copies of the first and third editions of Ramsay’s The physical geology and geography of Great Britain (Ramsay 1863 and Ramsay 1872) in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8616F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8616F