To Wallis Nash 29 May 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
May 29th 1878
My dear Mr Nash
I thank you sincerely for your most kind Dedication, & I heartily wish that I deserved it more fully than is the case.1 Emma began reading aloud your volume to us yesterday evening, & we liked it much, though not as yet arrived at new ground, yet it told us several new things. There is not a word in it superfluous, & this as far as my experience goes with books of travels is an extremely rare virtue.
Pray thank Mrs. Nash for her note.2 We often & often regret your & Mrs. Nash’s absence, & say if you were here we would talk about this or that point.—
But we ought not to regret your move, for Beckenham is a larger field for the unbounded goodness of both of you.3
Believe me | Yours ever very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Frank has gone to Cambridge for some electrical work with plants, otherwise he wd have sent a message to Mrs Nash.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Nash, Wallis. 1878. Oregon: there and back in 1877. London: Macmillan and Co.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Summary
Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11533
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Wallis Nash
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11533,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11533.xml