To W. E. Gladstone 4 August [1879]
Coniston
Aug 4th.
Dear Mr. Gladstone
Although you are so kind as to tell me not to acknowledge the receipt of your Essay, in which you show how wonderfully Homer distinguished different kinds of movement,1 yet I must beg permission to thank you for this honour & I remain | Faithfully yours | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Gladstone had sent CD his essay ‘On epithets of movement in Homer’ (Gladstone 1879) with his letter of 24 July 1879.
Bibliography
Gladstone, William Ewart. 1879. On epithets of movement in Homer. Nineteenth Century 5: 463–87.
Summary
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12181
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ewart Gladstone
- Sent from
- Coniston
- Postmark
- AU 4 79
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12181,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12181.xml
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