To Edward Cresy 13 May [1863]1
Down, Bromley, Kent
May 13th.
Dear Cresy
I have been visiting for a fortnight for health sake and your pleasant note was forwarded to me;2 but I delayed writing till my return home this afternoon when I found the maps.3 We have all been studying them with much interest; and it was uncommonly kind in you to think of sending them.
My son George failed at St. John’s; but the tutor gave a very good report of his examination.4 He was unfortunate in not having questions in some of the higher branches of mathematics in which he is best up, as in the Differential Calculus.— But we have now resolved that he shall stay another year at school, as he is yet under 18.5
Our trip has not done my youngest boy or myself much good in health, I am sorry to say.—6 In haste.
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
White, Henry Patrick. 1982. A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Vol. 2: Southern England. 4th edition. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles.
Summary
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4164
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Cresy, Jr
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 323
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4164,” accessed on 29 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4164.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11