To John Fiske 17 August [1879]1
Waterhead Hotel | Coniston, Ambleside
Aug. 17th.
Dear Mr Fiske
I fear that you will think me very troublesome, but I cannot rest easy without thanking you for the pleasure which your Essays have given me.— I think those on Wright, on a Librarian’s duty & the supplement on Buckle interested me most.2
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Fiske, 5 August [1879].
Fiske had sent CD his Darwinism, and other essays (Fiske 1879); see letter to John Fiske, 5 August [1879]. Chapters 6 and 12 were titled ‘Chauncey Wright’ and ‘A librarian’s work’. Chapter 10 (‘Postscript to Mr. Buckle’) was a supplement to chapter 9 (‘Mr. Buckle’s fallacies’); they critiqued the work of Henry Thomas Buckle on European civilisation.
Bibliography
Fiske, John. 1879. Darwinism and other essays. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12196
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Fiske
- Sent from
- Coniston
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (HM 8268)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12196,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12196.xml
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