Letter 1828
Darwin, C. R. to Phillips, John
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Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].
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Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 28
My dear Phillips
I have received this morning your very kind present; but I am almost ashamed to accept so beautiful a book in return for my old & dry works on Rocks.—
With very sincere thanks. Believe me. Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
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- f1 1828.f1
Dated by the relationship to the letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856]. - +
- f2 1828.f2
Phillips 1855. CD's copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. The work includes a series of views of Yorkshire taken from sketches by Phillips. - +
- f3 1828.f3
Geology of ‘Beagle’. See letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856], n. 6.