To William Turner 11 February [1867]1
Down.
Feb. 11,
My dear Sir
I write to ask no more questions, but merely to thank you sincerely for your last, which has explained clearly all that I wanted to know.2 I have sent my MS. on “Domestic Animals, &c” to the printers, and it proves so terribly bulky that I have resolved not to include my Chapt. on Man; but as I have collected materials during several years on certain points (though so ignorant on other and perhaps more important subjects) in the Natural History of man I mean to publish a separate essay hereafter.3 I mention this merely that you might not think that your labours and kindness have been thrown away,—that is as far as I am capable of making use of them.4
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely & obliged | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5398
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 155
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5398,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5398.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
