From W. K. Parker 18 January 1878
36 Claverton St SW
Jany. 18/78
Dear Sir
I was indeed disappointed to find that you had just called when I returned home today— I had been out (unexpectedly) on Will-Probate business.
Would you, most kindly, if you come up to Town again, & can call here, drop me a post card over-night: I would ‘compass sea & land’1 to have a talk with you.
It is with me, as it is with other loving disciples, I am always thinking & saying as fact after fact turns up, Oh, shouldn’t I like to shew this to Mr. Darwin!.2
My pupilship under you is of about 30 years standing, so I feel bold to speak out & say what I, & my fellow-pupils feel.
I am, Dear Sir | Yours most truly | W. K. Parker
Chas. Darwin Esq | FRS
Footnotes
Bibliography
Desmond, Adrian. 1982. Archetypes and ancestors: palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850–1875. London: Blond & Briggs.
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
Sorry he was out when CD called.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10077
- From
- William Kitchen Parker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Claverton St, 36
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 20
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10077,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10077.xml
