To T. H. Farrer 18 January [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan 18th
My dear Farrer
You have been very good in getting for me such capital information & it wd. have been complete if the last census had reached the office.2 But there is enough indirect information showing clearly that the inhabitants are far from becoming sterile, & affording a capital contrast with the New Zealanders, Sandwich Islanders &c.3
I think I clearly ought to write & thank Mr Herbert & send through him my thanks to Mr Dealtry who has taken much trouble for me.— But I am perplexed how to address Mr Herbert, as there are so many “Honourables” of that name.4 Will you send me a P. Card to this effect.
With many thanks for your assistance. Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10362
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10362,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10362.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22