To William Samuel Symonds 26 March [1861]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 26th
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind present of your volume on Old Bones & for the very flattering manner in which you allude to my work.—2
Pray believe me | Yours sincerely & obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The identity of the recipient and the year are provided by the reference to Symonds 1861 (see n. 2, below).
Symonds was the author of Old bones; or, notes for young naturalists (Symonds 1861). Symonds frequently cited CD’s views in the book and referred to Origin as a ‘remarkable work’ (ibid., p. 33). The book is not in the Darwin Library.
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Symonds, William Samuel. 1861. Old bones; or, notes for young naturalists. London.
Summary
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3099
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3099,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3099.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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