From Herbert Spencer 7 July 1875
38, Queen’s Gardens, | Bayswater.
July. 7th. 1875
Dear Darwin,
I was surprised by your new volume—wondering how, with your state of health, you had managed to make such extensive inquiries and to prepare so elaborate a statement of results. Thank you very much for it.1 I would it had come years ago, while the Biology was in progress;2 so that I might have turned its varied information to more account than I fear I shall now be able to do
Sincerely yours | Herbert Spencer
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Spencer, Herbert. 1864–7. The principles of biology. 2 vols. London: Williams & Norgate.
Summary
Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10049
- From
- Herbert Spencer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Bayswater
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 234
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10049,” accessed on 31 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10049.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23