From Charles Ottley Groom Napier January 1870
20 Maryland Road | Paddington | W.
Janry 1870
To Ch. Darwin Esqre F.R.S.
My dear Sir
By desire of the late Lord Brougham1 I send you a copy of my new work The Book of Nature and the Book of Man, will you accept it in remembrance of his Lordship who had a very high opinion of the author of “Natural Selection” to which he was latterly a convert.2
I regret much the delay in forwarding the book which is only just published I should have liked to have sent it in the lifetime of Lord Brougham. Let it now be an olive leaf snatched from his tomb
I remain yours most respectfully | C O Groom Napier
Footnotes
Bibliography
Groom Napier, Charles Ottley. 1870. The book of nature and the book of man, in which man is accepted as the type of creation–the microcosm,–the great pivot on which all lower forms of life turn. With a preface by the late Lord Brougham. London: John Camden Hotten.
Summary
COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7068
- From
- Charles Ottley Groom Napier
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Maryland Rd, 20
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 228
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7068,” accessed on 23 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7068.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
