To Henry Doubleday 8 January [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 8th
My dear Sir
I write one line merely to thank you for your very kind note, & to beg you not think of taking any trouble, till you are perfectly well from your present suffering condition.2
My dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
The case of variation was one in which forms were, as I was told, reared by you, which had been named as species by some Lepidopterists.— Such cases are the valuable ones to me.—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Mays, Robert. 1978. Henry Doubleday: the Epping naturalist. Marlow, Bucks.: Precision Press.
Summary
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2037F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Doubleday
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Dr Heather Whitney (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2037F,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2037F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)