To Henry Johnson 28 December [1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Decr 28th
My dear Johnson
I am as well as ever I am & working away on worms.2
Heaven knows how the report arose; but this morning my son had a letter from Lady Thompson in Scotland, asking about me & saying she had read in a Scotch newspaper that I was dangerously ill!3 The false report has done me one good turn in bringing me so extremely kind a letter as that of yours.—
My dear Johnson | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
The report that CD is seriously ill is false, but the kind letters that it produced have done a good turn. [See 12943.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12951A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Johnson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Private collection
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12951A,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12951A.xml
