To Charles Lyell 28 [June 1859]
Down Bromley Kent
28th
My dear Lyell
It is not worth while troubling you, but my conscience is uneasy at having forgotten to thank you for your Etna,1 which seems to me a magnificent contribution to volcanic Geology & I shd. think you might now rest on your oars in this department.—2
As soon as ever I can get a copy of my Book ready in some six weeks or two months’ time, it shall be sent you; & if you approve of it, even to a moderate extent, it will be the highest satisfaction which I shall ever receive for an amount of labour which no one will ever appreciate.—
Yours most truly | 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–.
Lyell, Charles. 1858. On the structure of lavas which have consolidated on steep slopes; with remarks on the mode of origin of Mount Etna, and on the theory of ‘craters of elevation’. [Read 10 June 1858.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 703–86.
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of his paper ["Structure of lavas", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86].
Promises him a copy of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2473
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.166)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2473,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2473.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
