To Thomas Walker 5 May [1840]1
Sir
I have been prevented by ill-health, from which I am still suffering, from sooner acknowledging your letter of the 1st of April.—2 I hope to be able in a short time to write to Mr Kemp on the subject of his important discovery of ancient water-lines on your Eildon Hills; and I am very much obliged to your kindness in affording me the means to do so by giving me his address.—3 I am much gratified at the impression, you have been pleased to form of my geological work in the southern hemisphere.—4 I fully concur with you in estimating most highly the pleasure derived from investigating the ancient history of the world, and every geologist must hail with joy, so auspicious a fact, as the concurrence of several warm followers of the science in the formation of a country Society.—5
With every wish for the prosperity of your Society, Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours respectfully | Chas. Darwin
12 Upper Gower St | Tuesday May 5th
Footnotes
Summary
Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-565G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Walker
- Source of text
- Jim Somerville (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 565G,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-565G.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)