To ? 21 August 1881
Down, Beckenham, Kent,
Aug. 21, 1881.
Dear Sir
I much regret that I cannot comply with your wishes. I have made it a rule (which I have rarely broken) never to write in Periodicals, because I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & it would consume much of my time.
Thanking you for your courteous note, & wishing continued success to your excellent Journal,1 I remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13296A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13296A,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13296A.xml