To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Augt 1st
My dear Sir
I enclose with much pleasure my photograph made by my son, for I have no other.2 I shall be very glad to receive yours, if you will be so good as to send me one
My dear sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to the photograph (see n. 2, below).
CD refers to a photograph taken by his eldest son, William Erasmus Darwin in the spring of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8). It is reproduced as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12. CD’s next photograph was probably taken in November 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865]).
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4580F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4580F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4580F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
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