From James Paget 7 February 1863
1 Harewood Place | Hanover Square | W.
Feby. 7. 1863
Dear Darwin
I send herewith the genealogical table,1 and with it, a book by the same writer, Dr. Dobell,2 which he begs me to present to you saying “I have from the first wished to have an opportunity of giving him a copy, having taken his name so much in vain:3 and will you say that I much desire to know what he has to say to the part I have doubled-down”—4
The facts which I have ascertained in relation to the inheritance of cancer5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Dobell, Horace. 1861. Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations. London: John Churchill.
Dobell, Horace. 1862. A contribution to the natural history of hereditary transmission. [Read 25 November 1862.] Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 46: 25–8.
Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.
Paget, James. 1857. On the hereditary transmission of tendencies to cancerous and other tumours. Medical Times and Gazette n.s. 15: 191–3.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3971
- From
- James Paget, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Harewood Place, 1
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 4
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3971,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3971.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11