From Henry Johnson 22 September [1879]1
10 Corve St | Ludlow
Sept 22.
My dear Darwin,
I am going to ask you a great favour. You see what trouble your great Eminence in Science brings upon you.
Will you be so very kind at your leisure to give me your autograph on a loose bit of paper. It is for a brother medical man who is very anxious to possess it.
You will be surprised to learn that I have retired from Shrewsbury and come to live here quietly & I am not well, having attacks something like Angina Pectoris.
I sincerely hope you are well & strong in mind & body as ever.
Believe me | Yours most truly | & heartily | Henry Johnson
P.S. Mary & I were present in the Cave near Tenby when they found so many antediluvial bones &c. with Professor Rolleston &c. It was deeply interesting.2
Footnotes
Summary
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12236
- From
- Henry Johnson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Ludlow
- Source of text
- DAR 168: 69
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12236,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12236.xml
