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Darwin Correspondence Project

To F. W. Farrar   19 May [1871]1

Down | Beckenham | Kent.

May 19th

My dear Sir,

On my return home today I found your very kind present of your “Witness of History etc” which I believe arrived two or three days ago.2

I thank you very sincerely for thinking of me, and, from turning over the pages, I feel sure that I shall find much that will interest me.

Pray believe me, with much respect. | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin

Footnotes

The year is established by the reference to Farrar 1871 (The witness of history to Christ: five sermons preached before the University of Cambridge).
CD refers to Farrar 1871.

Bibliography

Farrar, Frederic William. 1871. The witness of history to Christ: five sermons preached before the University of Cambridge: being the Hulsean lectures for the year 1870. London: Macmillan and Co.

Summary

Thanks for present of FWF’s The witness of history [1871].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-7763
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Frederic William Farrar
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 144: 42
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7763,” accessed on 29 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7763.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19

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