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DARWIN (Erasmus) autograph letter signed, 3pp., dated Derby Jan 25, 1801, to Miss Seward, on astrological queries '...I have looked over the astrological almanac you favour'd me with; and do not see that the author mentions the earth being in any sign of the zodiac.' He goes on to finish - 'You flatter me when you tell my translation of Mr Tighe on the cultivation of brocoli is too sublime, as mock-heroic poetry ought to be so.' (formerly mounted to a leaf, some cropping)

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