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To Linnean Society   23 January [1875]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan. 23d

My dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note & beg you to thank the Council for their kindness. I did not know that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one; but had I known it, I shd. have thought myself to have asked the consent of the Council2

My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to Linnean Society, 1 January [1875].
2
CD’s work on climbing plants was first published in 1865 as a paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society (‘Climbing plants’), then as a book published in 1865 by Longman (Climbing plants); the second edition was published in November 1875 by John Murray.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

‘?bound in courtesy’ is interl in another hand after ‘thought myself’: it isn’t a CD alteration. AMP.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9828,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9828