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57 Darwin (Charles)

Autograph Letter Signed, Charles Darwin, 4pp. 8vo, Down [Bromley] Kent, February 20/77.

To Dear ... [To Mary Butler 20 February [1859]]

. . . I send you some autographs with a list of the men, as you, perhaps, would not know who were who. You will now be well stocked with the autographs of Naturalists. I make myself very pleasant at home with ghost stories and other plumes borrowed from you. I enjoyed my fortnight extremely at Moor Park, but if I were long exposed to the very pleasant temperature of sitting between Miss (Dinah) Craik & you, I wonder what I should not come to believe: Honeysuckles turning into oaks would be a mere trifle & new species springing up on every railway embankment. Will you tell Dr. Lane that I find Etty looking as well and as fat as before her illness.

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Darwin (Charles)

Three Autograph Letters Signed, as below described; one Copy of Autograph Letter Signed.

Together, 4 pieces.

An Extremely Fine Group of Darwin Letters on Scientific Subjects. Comprises,—A. L. S., 2pp. 12mo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, May 23rd, 1878, in regard to earthquakes, explaining that he is not deeply versed in them; A. L. S., 3pp. 12mo, Down, Farnborough, Kent, Friday, N. d., to J. S. Bowerbank, thanking him for a box of specimens, which he expects to use in proving the existence of several new genera of sponges; A. L. S., 3pp. 12mo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, Jan. 24, n. y., evidently to a Viennese scientist, whom he congratulates on his work and desires to call upon; Copy of A. L. S., one page 16mo, same place, April 26, 1878, on personal matters.