Two letters to R D Keynes, April and May 1979, concerning the purchase from him by the Cambridge Philosophical Society of a copy of R D Keynes, ‘The Beagle Record’, together with a cutting from the Cambridge Evening News, 29 March 1979, concerning the publication of the book and a letter written by Charles Darwin to the Society on 1 December 1835 before the Beagle sailed for Lima. The cutting quotes parts of Darwin’s letter.