To ? 21 August 1881
Down, Beckenham, Kent,
Aug. 21, 1881.
Dear Sir
I much regret that I cannot comply with your wishes. I have made it a rule (which I have rarely broken) never to write in Periodicals, because I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & it would consume much of my time.
Thanking you for your courteous note, & wishing continued success to your excellent Journal,1 I remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The note has not been found; the journal has not been identified. CD used similar wording in declining an invitation to write for Kosmos (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to Ernst Krause, 27 May 1879).
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13296A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13296A,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13296A.xml
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