To J. F. Royle 1 September [1847]
Down Farnborough Kent
Sept 1st.
Dear Royle
I return you with very many thanks your valuable work: I am sure I have not lost any slip or disarranged the loose numbers.— I have been interested by looking through the vols, though I have not found quite so much as I had thought possible about the varieties of the Indian domestic animals & plants,1 & the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed. I have, however, been astonished & delighted at the evidence of the energetic attempts to do good by such numbers of people & most of them evidently not personally interested in the result. Long may our rule flourish in India. I declare all the labour shown in these Transactions is enough by itself to make one proud of ones countrymen.—
Once again let me thank you for lending me so valuable a work, & one so evidently useful & well used by you.—
Pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Returns JFR’s copies of Transactions [Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India]. Has not found quite as much as he thought he might on varieties of Indian domestic animals and plants; "the attempts at introduction have been too recent for the effects, if any, of climate to have been developed". Is impressed by the work of the English in India.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1112
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Forbes Royle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Heritage Auctions (dealers) (11 April 2013)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1112,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1112.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4