From John Tyndall 5 February 1876
5th. Feby. 1876.
My dear Darwin
I wrote to you this morning when the teapot was a proposal merely. It has now come, and any thing more exquisite than it and its appurtenances I have never seen.1 Louisa2 was with me when it arrived and she could not find words to express her sense of your kindness. “What shall we say to him” I asked. “How shall we thank him?” “Say” said she simply “that the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said regarding it”.
Yours to the last | John Tyndall
Footnotes
Summary
The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10382
- From
- John Tyndall
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10382,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10382.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
