To Lawson Tait 13 November [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Nov. 13th
My dear Sir
I have been asked at least a score of times to write in periodicals, but have always refused, as I am not fitted for the work & dislike doing so particularly.—2 It wd. cost me much loss of time, as I cannot change with ease from one job to another.— Therefore you must excuse me. Will you be so good as to hand over the enclosed to Mr Badger when you next communicate with him?—3
My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
I hope that your journal may be successful.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11235
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 40
- Physical description
- ALS 1p (photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11235,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11235.xml
