To Deane Parker Pennethorne 22 May [1868]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 22nd.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your note & paper on man.1 As I have attended during some years to the same question & have lately been writing a short essay on it, it is not surprising that I have not found anything actually new to me in your paper.2 Nevertheless it is always interesting & instructive to see how other men look at the same subject.
I am therefore much obliged to you for having sent me the paper, & I am glad to say that we agree upon almost all points.
Pray believe me, dear Sir | yours faithfully | 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–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Comments on DP’s paper on man ["Transmutation of man according to the Darwinian theory" (n.d.)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6198
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Deane Parker Pennethorne
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MY 23 68
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.350)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6198,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6198.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
