To Samuel Wilks 27 July 1879
Down, Beckenham,
27 July 1879
[Thanking him for sending the text of a recent oration by Wilks (which Darwin was unable wholly to follow when it was delivered) and thanking him also for an article on parrots.]1
Footnotes
See letter from Samuel Wilks, 26 July 1879 and n. 1. Wilks had sent CD a copy of his Harveian oration (Wilks 1879a) and evidently included a copy of his recent article in the Journal of Mental Science, ‘Notes from the history of my parrot, in reference to the nature of language’ (Wilks 1879b). CD’s copy of Wilks 1879b is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
Bibliography
Wilks, Samuel. 1879a. The Harveian oration, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, June 26th, 1879. London: J. & A. Churchill.
Wilks, Samuel. 1879b. Notes from the history of my parrot, in reference to the nature of language. Journal of Mental Science 25: 151–61.
Summary
Thanks SW for text of his oration
and an [unspecified] article on parrots.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12176
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 1967: 489)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12176,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12176.xml
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