To Henry Johnson 22 February 1882
Down | Beckenham, Kent.
Feby 22nd. 1882.
Dear Sir,
As very few luggage trains call at our small station the great box arrived there only 2 days ago & I was not able to send for it until yesterday as there was a run on my horses.1 The specimen arrived quite safe owing to the great care with which it had been packed up.
The impressions are wonderfully distinct & the specimen seems to me a very interesting & curious one. I shall be anxious to show it to any geologists who may visit me and who may happen to have attended more carefully to impressions than I have ever done.
How I wish that my dear old friend Sir Charles Lyell had been alive!2
Prey accept my cordial thanks for the great kindness which you have shown in sending me this specimen.
Believe me my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
‘Formation of mould’: On the formation of mould. [Read 1 November 1837.] Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2d ser. 5 (1840): 505–9. [Shorter publications, pp. 124–7.]
Summary
Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13699
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Johnson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 5
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13699,” accessed on 24 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13699.xml
