To ? 5 October 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Oct 5. 1881
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kind & courteous note.1 Writing is so laborious to me & loses so much time, that during many years I have resolved never to write in periodicals, & I am sorry to say that I cannot break my resolution, as it wd. make my declining the next time that I am asked; much more difficult.—2
Believe me my dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The note has not been found and the correspondent has not been identified.
The periodical has not been identified; CD used similar wording in declining an invitation to write for Kosmos (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Ernst Krause, 27 May 1879).
Summary
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13373F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Rick Northwood (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13373F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13373F.xml
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