To Francis Darwin [6 November 1871]1
Leith Hill Place | Wotton, Dorking
Monday
My dear F.
Who is Fiske & what is his address.? Is he Professor? The articles seem very good & so fair & in some aspects so complimentary that I think I ought to write a line.2 I imagine he is young.— We stay here till Friday morning so write here if you can. —
Yours affecty | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Clark, John Spencer. 1917. The life and letters of John Fiske. 2 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Summary
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8054
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- DAR 271.3: 5
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8054,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8054.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19