To Hugh Falconer 4 October [1862]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Oct 4th
My dear Falconer
I returned home on Tuesday evening & on Thursday I returned your M.S., with my letter, to Park Crescent, & there I have no doubt you will find it safe.—2 I shd. indeed be grieved if it were lost.—
In Haste | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 October 1862 (Correspondence vol. 10).
In his letter of 3 October 1862 (Correspondence vol. 10), Falconer asked CD whether he had received the manuscript that Falconer had sent him on 27 September 1862. The manuscript was part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863). CD commented favourably on the manuscript in his letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] (Correspondence vol. 10).
Summary
Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3751F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3751F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3751F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
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