[Letter] [18]66 August 29, The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regents Park [to Edward Bannerman Ramsay] .

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[Letter] [18]66 August 29, The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regents Park [to Edward Bannerman Ramsay] .

Letter thanking Edward Ramsay, Dean of Edinburgh, for the gift of a copy of his "Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character."

1 leaf ; 15 x 11 cm.

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Edward Bannerman Ramsay was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church and Dean of Edinburgh. He was also a writer and avid amateur botanist. John Stevens Henslow, also a botanist, is best known for being professor of botany at Cambridge and Charles Darwin's mentor. From the description of Letter to John Stevens Henslow, 1832, October 20. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 281307593 ...

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