From John Farr 10 July 1873
North Hill | Highgate N
July 10th 1873
Dear Sir,
I thank you kindly for your Photograph and letter.1 I shall prize them greatly, as coming from one who has changed the current of human thought to a considerable extent, by a process of right reasoning based on accumulated facts.
I shall read your works with additional zest, knowing you are alive and well. Your photograph represents you aged, but I hope you will be spared many years to enjoy the calm serenity of a well spent life. And when I feel inclined to write to you, I will do so without apology or hesitation.
I have very much admired the writings of the brothers Andrew & George Comb, now deceased; I daresay you are acquainted with the writings of both. I mean George Comb on the “Constitution of Man”, and Andrew on “Physiology”.2
I am, Dear Sir | yours sincerely | John Farr
C. Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Bibliography
Combe, Andrew. 1834. The principles of physiology applied to the preservation of health, and to the improvement of physical and mental education. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black.
Combe, George. 1828. The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects. Edinburgh: J. Anderson, jun.
Cooter, Roger. 1984. The cultural meaning of popular science: phrenology and the organization of consent in nineteenth-century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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.
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8973
- From
- John Farr
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Highgate
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 28
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8973,” accessed on 16 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8973.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21