Naturalist penned document in response to request for sample of his handwriting to reprint in magazine

A rare manuscript containing a passage from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is to be sold at auction in November.

The document, which is expected to fetch between £530,000 and £700,000, is said to be the most significant autograph manuscript by Darwin to have appeared at auction.

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