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From Thomas Burgess   21 April [1875]1

Rainow.

April 21

Dear Sir

I have received your Letter of the 15 Inst and the Book2   I thank you most kindly for the Handsome manner in which you have wrote to me, considering I am so much benath you in Position   I shall whilst I live Prize the Book and when Dead have Ordered it to given to one of my gransons who is named after me   “I think at times when I look at your Pothograth I can recolect your appearane in the forehead3 I can Also recerlect many of the sights in Terra del Fuego and some that you do not name but we were not Always in Company   you will see that this is another hand writing the other letters were wrote by A Freind who Doubted Some of my Assertions that I had been with you   this is my Own writing

I am Sir Your | Humble Servant | Thomas Burgess | Rainow | Macclesfield | Cheshire

Charles Darwin Esq

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Thomas Burgess, 13 April 1875.
2
The letter from CD has not been found, but see the letter from Thomas Burgess, 13 April 1875. The book that CD sent has not been identified, although it is likely to have been Journal of researches.
3
Burgess served on HMS Beagle with CD; he requested a photograph in his letter of 26 March 1875.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9943,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9943