From Henry Holland 4 November [1870]1
72 Brook Street
Nov 4th
My dear Charles,
A few lines, merely to say that a month this autumn in Jamaica, & other W. Indian Islands, has brought me still-more closely within the circle of your doctrine, both as regards the vegetable & the human world. I had no adequate idea before of the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, & of that wonderful parasitic life which plays so large a part in it.
I am interrupted here, but had little indeed more to say than this.
Ever your’s affecy | H Holland
Footnotes
Bibliography
Holland, Henry. 1872. Recollections of past life. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Summary
A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7357
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St, 72
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 251
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7357,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7357.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18