To Leslie Stephen 13 January 1881
Down, | Beckenham, | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 13th 1881
My dear Leslie Stephen
Your note is one of the kindest which I have ever received, & your advice shall be strictly followed.1 It was very good of you, busy as you are, to take so much trouble for me; but your trouble will not be thrown away, in so far as when in the dead of the night the thought comes across me how I have been treated, I will resolutely try to banish the thoughts, & say to myself that so good a judge, as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the false accusation The Litchfields & some of my other children are intensely anxious to read your judgment2 | Believe me | yours ever gratefully | Charles Darwin
I have written on opposite page my name if you think fit to paste it into the Life of E. D.;3 but I much wish that you wd. name one or more of the books, written wholly by myself, which I could treat in the same manner for you.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Summary
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13012
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Leslie Stephen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13012,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13012.xml