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Darwin Correspondence Project

From F. M. Balfour   10 July 1881

Chamonix

July 10. 1881

My dear Mr. Darwin

It is extremely kind of you to suggest sending your spare copy of my book to Fritz Müller & I enclose a slip of paper with ‘From the author’ written on it; though I feel that under the circumstances the book ought to be rather regarded as your gift than as mine.

In any case there is nobody to whom it would please me more to have the copy sent than to Fritz Müller.1

I thank you most heartily for your kind congratulations on the completion of the work, & I only trust that it may prove worthy of the praise you have bestowed on it.

Yours very sincerely | F. M. Balfour

Footnotes

CD had suggested giving his spare copy of Balfour’s A treatise on comparative embryology (Balfour 1880–1) to Müller (see letter to F. M. Balfour, 6 July 1881).

Bibliography

Balfour, Francis Maitland. 1880–1. A treatise on comparative embryology. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co.

Summary

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13240
From
Francis Maitland Balfour
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Chamonix
Source of text
DAR 160: 30
Physical description
ALS 4pp

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13240,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13240.xml

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