To Henry Woodward 13 February [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station| Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb. 13th
Dear Mr Woodward
I have signed the paper with pleasure.—2
Many thanks for your letter which has interested me in many ways. That about the Limulus sounds like a particularly interesting discovery.3 I am obliged for your kind expressions about me & my son.4 I go on working in a humble way, trying to add a few stones for building up the great edifice of Science.—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Woodward, Henry. 1866–78. A monograph of the British fossil Crustacea, belonging to the order Merostomata. London: Palaeontographical Society.
Summary
Has signed a paper [unspecified];
thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12474
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Woodward
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12474,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12474.xml