To F. T. Buckland 2 October 18661
I am much obliged for the Paper which is full of interesting matter and for your note. I am sure I should be very glad to be of any assistance to you but my health is too weak for me to offer to be a correspondent; nor do I think it likely that I should have any questions to ask, and so take advantage of your obliging offer.2 I am endeavouring to complete a book which has been many years on hand.3 Perhaps you may remember my asking you about the feet of otter hounds.4 You obtained some information but never sent it me, being I have no doubt so much pressed with other business.5 I now enclose a query on the same subject, if you will be so kind as to insert it; if you were to back it up with an editorial request my chance of answer would be better, though I am not sanguine.6 I have ordered from my news vendor “Land and Water” for the next six months.7
With every good wish for your success and that your labour may grow lighter. | Believe me | Yours very faithfully | 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–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Declines contributing to Land and Water. Asks if Frank Buckland can insert a question about the feet of otter hounds.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5227F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
- Source of text
- Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5227F,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5227F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14