To Charles Lyell 6 September [1861]
Down Bromley Kent
Sept 6th.
My dear Lyell
I think the enclosed is worth your reading.1 I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder from beginning to end.2
Eheu. Eheu. | Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Rudwick, Martin John Spencer. 1974. Darwin and Glen Roy: a ‘great failure’ in scientific method? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 5 (1974–5): 97–185.
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3246
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.262)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3246,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3246.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
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