To E. A. Wheler 19 April 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
April. 19th 1879
My dear Cousin
How good you are to take so much trouble.1 I have marked in pencil the two letters “to be returned to you”; but it will safe me some copying so I will accept your offer of keeping them for about 6 or 8 weeks— I have not yet written a word, & shall not till I leave home.—2 I greatly fear that you will be sadly disappointed with my “Preliminary notice”; but no man can do better than his best.
yours very sincerely Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Summary
Thanks his cousin for lending two letters [to be used in Ernst Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin, their grandfather].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12004A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Elizabeth Anne Galton/Elizabeth Anne Wheler
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Chiswick Auctions (dealers) (10 October 2018, lot 19)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12004A,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12004A.xml