To Antonio Mendola 8 January [1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jany. 8th. 1879
Dear Sir
I am obliged to you for your kindness in writing to me & for the specimens which you are so good as to offer to [send]. Your statements are so remarkable that I can assure you that no naturalist, without repeated & most ⟨care⟩ful observations with all the many chances of error avoided, would think them worthy of any consideration.—2 I am myself so much engaged on other work, that I cannot undertake the investigation, & therefore will not trouble you to send the horn.
I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12409F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Antonio Mendola
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010)
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12409F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12409F.xml
