To James Dawson [3 June 1881]1
[Glenridding House, Patterdale.]
Dear Sir
I am greatly obliged to you for the very kind present of your very handsome volume ‘Aust aborig’2 which I shall be extremely glad to read & remain Dear Sir | Yours f. & obl. | C. D.
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Dawson, 30 July 1881.
CD’s lightly annotated copy of Australian aborigines (Dawson 1881) is in the Darwin Library–Down.
Bibliography
Dawson, James. 1881. Australian aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia. Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide: George Robertson.
Summary
Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13192
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Dawson
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 116v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13192,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13192.xml
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