From James Paget 18 November 1879
1, Harewood Place, | Hanover Square. | W.
Novr. 18. 1879.
My dear Darwin
I thank you very much for giving me the Life of your Grandfather.—1 It is intensely interesting, not only as the history of a very rare life and the evidence of a greatness of mental power only now fairly estimated, but as an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual tendency as well as intellectual strength—
May the like transmission be continued through yet many generations!
Sincerely your’s | James Paget.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12328
- From
- James Paget, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Harewood Place, 1
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 11
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12328,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12328.xml