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Stolen Charles Darwin Letter Returned to Smithsonian by FBI

Document from 1875 stolen by former employee in the 1970s

By Matthew Reitman
June 3, 2016 9:52 am EDT

 

Front and back of the letter written by Charles Darwin to Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden on May 2, 1875. (FBI)
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