To H. B. Baildon 9 June 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
June 9th 1880
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your courteous note & for the gift of your ‘Spirit of Nature’.1
I will read your work as soon as I have finished a book in hand, & I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
A copy of Baildon’s book The spirit of nature: being a series of interpretative essays on the history of matter from the atom to the flower (Baildon 1880) is in the Darwin Library–Down. Baildon’s note has not been found.
Bibliography
Baildon, Henry Bellyse. 1880. The spirit of nature: being a series of interpretative essays on the history of matter from the atom to the flower. London: J. & A. Churchill.
Summary
Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12623
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Bellyse Baildon
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12623,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12623.xml
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