From E. A. Darwin 20 June [1862]1
Dear Charles.
I dont know if it will be in your power to give Carlyle a helping hand about a book. On some former occasion he borrowed a book from the Jermyn St Museum he does not remember thro’ whom or the exact title. It was an 8vo with a cold geological map on the ‘Saxon Switzerland’.2
Do you know the Librarian well enough to give him the trouble of ascertaining the tittle of the Book & if such things are done to lend the book for a few days to Carlyle.3
E D—
June 20
Footnotes
Bibliography
Carlyle, Thomas. 1858–65. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great. 4 vols. London.
Collected letters of the Carlyles: The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Edited by Charles Richard Sanders et al. 21 vols. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 1970–93.
Dallas, James. 1881. Catalogue of the Library of the Geological Society of London. London.
Dyer, Isaac Watson. 1928. A bibliography of Thomas Carlyle’s writings and ana. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press.
Fielding, K. J. 1978. Froude’s revenge, or the Carlyles and Erasmus A. Darwin. Essays and Studies n.s. 31: 75–97.
Götzinger, Wilhelm Lebrecht. 1812. Schandau und seine Umgebungen, oder Beschreibung der sächischen Schweiz. 2d ed. Dresden.
Wilson, David Alec. 1929. Carlyle to threescore-and-ten (1853–1865). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Summary
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3614
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3614,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3614.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10