To Reginald Darwin 1 April 1879
Down,
April 1, 1879.
My dear Cousin
I write only to thank you for your most kind letter and to say that the great book arrived safely last night.1 I will begin at once to look through it, and whether or not I find anything to use, I shall be particularly glad to see it, as throwing some light on our grandfather’s character.2
Yours sincerely obliged | Charles Darwin
I will write again hereafter.
P.S. I thought of giving woodcuts of the house in which Dr. D. was born, and have got a photograph of Elston Hall from Mrs. Darwin of Creskeld.3 Could you give or lend a photograph of the Priory, as the scene of his death? I possess a drawing,—a poor copy in pencil of a lithograph, made from a drawing by some member of the Family, but I cannot exactly make out by whom.4
Footnotes
Summary
The "great book" [presumably Dr Erasmus Darwin’s commonplace book, see Erasmus Darwin, p. iii] arrived safely.
Can RD supply a photograph of [Breadsall] Priory?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11966
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Reginald Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 153: 96
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11966,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11966.xml