To G. J. Romanes 11 February 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Feb. 11th. 1881
My dear Romanes
I must write a few lines to thank you once again and cordially for your second letter in Nature. I have been particularly pleased by all the first part: The sympathy expressed privately & publickly to me ought to make me rejoice at having been attacked so savagely by Mr Butler; but I can hardly go as far as this, for it has annoyed me a good deal, but I shall now feel no more annoyment.—1
It was very good of you to waste so much of your time in this affair.—
Believe me | yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Butler, Samuel. 1880. Unconscious memory: a comparison between the theory of Dr. Ewald Hering, … and the ‘Philosophy of the unconscious’ of Dr. Edward von Hartmann. London: David Bogue.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Summary
Thanks GJR for his second letter replying to Butler [Nature 23 (1880–1): 335–6].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13049
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.582)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13049,” accessed on 14 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13049.xml
