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To Thomas Belt   24 February 1875

Down

Feb. 24, 1875.

My dear Sir

I did not answer your kind note, as I waited until I should come to London.1 This however will not be for some weeks, when I hope to have the real pleasure of making your acquaintance

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin.

Footnotes

1
Belt’s letter has not been found. CD often visited London in February, but had postponed his visit because he was finishing Insectivorous plants (see letter to D. F. Nevill, 15 February 1875). CD recorded that he finished the manuscript of Insectivorous plants on 29 March 1875 and was in London from 31 March until 12 April (see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD was a great admirer of Belt’s The naturalist in Nicaragua, which he described as the best natural-history book of travels ever published (Belt 1874a; see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Fritz Müller, 1 January 1874).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.

Summary

Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9870
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Belt
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 143: 81
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9870,” accessed on 26 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9870.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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