To J. F. Royle 14 August [1847]
Down, Farnborough, Kent.
Aug. 14th
Dear Royle
I am extremely much obliged to your kind remembrance of your offer to lend me the Books.1 Our carrier goes only once a week; he shall call on Thursday morning: I left an old Box at your house, which will probably be the safest way of sending the books. I will take the greatest care of this valuable work and will return it as soon as I can possibly go through the vols. Nothing but the impossibility of anywhere else getting the work, would have made me make so cool a request.
Thanks for your offer of putting me down as a Candidate for the Royal Soc.,2 but as I am scarcely ever able to dine out anywhere, I fear it would be quite useless to me.
I remember in your Production Resources,3 your refering with praise to Blacklock’s Treatise on sheep,4 would you trust me with that, also, if in your possession?
With many thanks | Believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838. A treatise on sheep; with the best means for their improvement, general management, and the treatment of their diseases. With a chapter on wool, and history of the wool trade. Glasgow.
Bonney, T. G. 1919. Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society written from its minute books. London: Macmillan.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Royle, John Forbes. 1840. Essay on the productive resources of India. London.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1108
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Forbes Royle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 401
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1108,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1108.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4