From M. C. Stanley 22 December 1875
Knowsley, | Prescot.
22 Decr/75
Dear Mr Darwin
Though you tell me not to answer your most kind note I cannot help disobeying you: Your warm & genuine expressions of approval have given Ld Derby more pleasure than any other compliment he has received, & you must forgive me for saying so.—1
We made two short visits to Keston last month, but I was never able to find time to get as far as Down.2
We are more & more pleased with Keston each time we go there.
Will you remember me kindly to Mrs Darwin & believe me | Yrs very sincerely | M C Derby
Footnotes
Summary
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10318
- From
- Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby/Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby/Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Knowsley, Prescot
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 168
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10318,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10318.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
