To S. P. Woodward 15 May [1856]1
Down
15 May
[Returning thanks for the Supplement to his correspondent’s Manual of the Mollusca,2 eloquently praising the book and Woodward’s labours in the cause of science]
‘What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! & how marvellously cheap.— I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science.’
Footnotes
Bibliography
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells. 3 pts. London. [Vols. 6,8,9]
Summary
Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1875
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Pickworth Woodward
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1875,” accessed on 13 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1875.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6