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Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]

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Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…

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  • … University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then …
  • … soon after its formation in the early 1900s. In his letter, 17 January 1865 , Darwin asked …
  • … of the world. We presumed that Henry Denny had passed the letter to his son when he came to …
  • … known to successive heads of departments! I had taken the letter from the safe to photograph it in …
  • … To our mutual amazement, it turned out that THE Darwin letter was in fact two letters. The second …
  • … sent copies. They in turn sent me copies of the intervening letter from Denny to Darwin, dated 23 …