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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. P. Garrison   [after 4 October 1879]1

It will ever be a deep gratification to me to know that your Father, whom I honor from the bottom of my soul, should have heard and approved of the few words which I wrote many years ago on Slavery.2

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. P. Garrison, 4 October 1879.

Summary

Gratified to know that WPG’s father, William Lloyd Garrison, approved of CD’s words on slavery in Journal of researches.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12248F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Source of text
Garrison and Garrison 1885–9, 4: 199 n. 1

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12248F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12248F.xml

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