From G. H. Darwin [30 June 1878]1
4, Bryanston Street, | Portman Square. W.
Sunday afternoon
Dear Father,
I never was more disgusted than at seeing that little paragraph in Nature—for it is obvious that M. Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as I have. I suppose it’s foolish to care very much about it, but I shall feel fearfully flat if I am forestalled.—
I asked Galton about sending some sort of abstract to the Brit. Assoc. but he said he didn’t know & advised me to find out from Spottiswoode which I am going to do—& if it is all right I shall send some account of my work to Dublin.2
I am sorry to say that Uncle Ras3 has had a relapse again which he says was brought on by his imprudence in eating green peas. He did not strike me as looking so ill as he was when he was first bad.
I have been very little good here tho’ Ive managed to see several people—but the heat has been really intolerable until today. I don’t quite know when I shall come down again as it depends on whether I get more lively or not tomorrow—however I shall certainly be back by Wednesday.4
Yours affectionately | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Is frustrated to see, from a paragraph in Nature [18 (1878): 242], that Charles Lagrange has got hold of the same sort of ideas as he has.
Erasmus is unwell.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11573
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 4
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 67
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11573,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11573.xml