To [C. E. Meetkerke] 7 January 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan 7th 1881.
Dear Madam
I am much obliged for the present of your very elegant work.—1 I daresay, & I hope, that you may by your book make many good observers of nature.—
I beg leave to remain with my best thanks | Dear Madam | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The book was probably The guests of flowers: a botanical sketch for children (Meetkerke 1881); there is a copy in the Darwin Library–Down. It was published in December 1880 (Publishers’ Circular, 15 December 1880, p. 1319).
Bibliography
Meetkerke, Cecilia Elizabeth. 1881. The guests of flowers: a botanical sketch for children. London: Griffith and Farran.
Summary
CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12983
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Cecilia Elizabeth Gore/Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12983,” accessed on
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