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Letter written by Charles Darwin
"Dear Sir,
I have received
a letter from
Dr. Asa Gray This morning, who says
pray ask Messrs
Trubner to send at
once ½ a
dozen copies of the (Darwins)
Orchid Book (Murray).
- Will you be
so good as to attend to this.
Yours faithfully, C. Darwin. "
The book referred to in this letter is Darwin s The Fertilization of Orchids (1862); it was his first book after his famous On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection. An interesting letter, signed at the conclusion as C Darwin and again in the body as (Darwin s)
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