To [?] 22 [March? 1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Friday 22d
Dear Sir
I am greatly obliged for your most kind offer, which, however, I will decline, as I am a good deal out of health, & as I have passed in a work which is now printing the part about Dogs.2
You are, also, probably not aware that this place is six miles of hilly road from Bromley.3
With my very sincere thanks for your kind offer, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5453
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5453,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5453.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
