From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Oct 23.
Sir
I write by my husband’s desire to thank you for your very interesting letter. I am sorry to say that he is now so unwell as to be unable to attend to any observations or work of any kind— He is very much interested by the account you give of the inherited variations & the proportion of them & the fact of the frequent occurrence of these variations in one locality is very curious.2 He has heard of facts somewhat analogous to these. He begs me to thank you for the honour you have done him & to say what a pleasure it would have been to have seen these varied plants if his health had permitted him to accept your very kind invitation
I am | Sir yours obediently | Emma Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4321F
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Private collection
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4321F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4321F.xml