To John Phillips 31 March [1874]1
Down Beckenham | Kent
Mar 31
My dear Phillips
I am very much obliged for your invitation, which I shd have enjoyed beyond any thing to have accepted; but I can go nowhere, & the journey to Oxford would nearly annihilate me—2
Judging from your sketches3 it must be indeed a big theory which wd equal your fossils. I shall look out with intense curiosity for some published account of them.
With very sincere thanks pray believe me | yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
P.S I well remember the very pleasant hours, many years ago which I spent with you at York—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.
Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9379
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Phillips
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9379,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9379.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
