To William Crookes 9 May [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 9th
My dear Sir
It would give me much pleasure to comply with your request, but I have so much to do & my health is so weak that I really cannot.— I make it a rule, which I rarely break, to stick to whatever I have in hand, & always repent whenever I break this rule.—2
I was delighted at the chance of seeing your wonderful experiment at the Royal Soc. the other night—3
Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Crookes, William. 1873. On the action of heat on gravitating masses. Abstract. [Read 11 December 1873.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 37–41.
Summary
Regrets he cannot comply with request because of his work and poor health.
Delighted to have seen correspondent’s "wonderful experiment" at Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9449
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Crookes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9449,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9449.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
