To Robert Fitch [13? April 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Saturday
My dear Sir
I send one line to say that I have got back some of your specimens safe & drawn, & taken all the others to Mr. Sowerby.—2 I am ready to go to press,3 & therefore you may rely on it, I shall urge Mr Sowerby on in his Drawings, but he has one longish job in Hand.—4
Mr Sowerby, took the liberty, of clearing, a little bit of chalk away from your best specimen, which he ought not to have done, but he has improved the specimen.— In one corner of it, he has displayed a little Terebratula or Crania, which he says is a new species to him!—
I wish with all my heart that my M.S. was printed & done with, for I have become at last tired of the fossil species.—5
This obviously requires no answer.—
Yours sincerely | & | obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1315
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Fitch
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Norwich Castle
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1315,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1315.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
