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To ?   26 March [1858?]1

Down Bromley Kent

March 26th

My dear Sir

I am quite ashamed of myself for having forgotten to return the Greenland Catalogue (which I have been very glad to see) before this time.—2 I now send it by this days post, & with my thanks

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is the first in which CD could refer to having borrowed Lange 1857 (see n. 2, below).
2
Lange 1857 is a list of Greenland plants. CD had inquired about this catalogue in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, [June 1857]).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Lange, Johan Martin Christian. 1857. Oversigt over Graennlands planter. Vol. 2, Appendix 6, pp. 106–35, of Rink, Hinrich Johannes, Grae9nnland, geographisk og statistik beskrevet. 2 vols. Copenhagen.

Summary

Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2246
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2246,” accessed on 21 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2246.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7

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