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Art | June 3, 2016 9:52 am

Stolen Charles Darwin Letter Returned to Smithsonian by FBI

Document from 1875 stolen by former employee in the 1970s

By Matthew Reitman

 

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

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