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[in another hand] About Cresy

[embossed letterhead] 12 Egerton Place, S.W.

Dear F

One Sir John McLure has come into possession of some of Father's letters. I have had them copied, and send you a set to keep. I rather think from pencil marks that you have had them before; but this did not occur to me till the copying was nearly done. Anyhow a

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second set will do no harm in your archives.

I have got Hen. to send some of the Origin M.SS to the Nat. History Museum, which has pleased them much.

I suppose you have heard that Billy is in England slightly wounded, a flesh wound in the arm. I fear he will get well only too soon!

Yours affec

L.D.

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[embossed letterhead] 12 Egerton Place, S.W.

These letters are in the possession of Sir John McLure, c/o Mill Hill School. I have compared them with the original and the copy is correct. Some words not easily read, however.

Leonard Darwin

July 7, 1916