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Darwin Correspondence Project

From Leslie Stephen   14 January 1881

13, Hyde Park Gate South. | S.W.

14.1.81

My dear Mr Darwin,

I believe that barristers consider it very wicked to refuse a fee; and in that respect I think that they show a good deal of sense. So, as I have been more or less acting as your Counsel, I will certainly not refuse the fee which you are so good as to offer, though it is more than an equivalent for anything that I have done—

If you will send me either the “origin of species” or the voyage of the Beagle (which was the first book of yours I ever read & which I therefore specially affect) I shall be sincerely grateful.1

You are most kind to think of such a thing.

I go to the Alps for a fortnight on tuesday next, to gratify a love of snow & which proves, I suppose, my descent from some prehistoric inhabitant of caves; but I hope to be back on Feby. 10th

Believe me to be | Yours very sincerely | L. Stephen

Footnotes

CD had offered to sign and send several of his books as a gesture of thanks for Stephen’s advice on how to respond to Samuel Butler (see letter to Leslie Stephen, 13 January 1881; see also letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 January [1881]).

Summary

Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13014
From
Leslie Stephen
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Hyde Park Gate South, 13
Source of text
DAR 177: 255
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13014,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13014.xml

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