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
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