To George Robert Waterhouse [August 1838–40]
My dear Waterhouse
I am so determined to make you a geologist, that I have taken the liberty of sending you a copy of Lyell,1 by which means I obtain full right to mal-treat & abuse you till you have read it.
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The reference is either to Lyell’s Elements, which was published in August 1838 (see letter to Charles Lyell, 9 August [1838]), or to the sixth edition of the Principles, published in 1840.
Summary
Determined to make GRW a geologist. Sends copy of C. Lyell [?Elements of geology (1838)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-416
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Robert Waterhouse
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 416,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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