Item 6 - Letter from Charles Darwin

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Letter from Charles Darwin

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  • 16 Apr. [1839] (Creation)

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12 Upper Gower St. - Thanks him for the wedding gift (Herman and Dorothea), and expresses his admiration for the clarity of Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences, at the risk of appearing "exceedingly presumptuous".

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      Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 506,” accessed on 22 June 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-506.xml
      Burkhardt, F. et al., eds. The correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press 1985–)

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