From W. C. Brooks 20 January [1882]1
Closebrooks | Antibes | Alpes-Maritimes
20th. January
Dear Sir,
Before leaving home, we read with the greatest interest your book on worms. I find here numbers of the Tower like worm casts which you describe as being found also at Nice.2
Under second cover by ⟨ line⟩nd one ⟨ line⟩ many here.— ⟨ line⟩ you to ⟨ line⟩ that the Revd. J. Michie, of the Manse, Bridge of Dinnât,
Aboyne,
Aberdeenshire
walking in his garden saw the gardener suddenly plunge his spade into the earth and throw up a mole. When he asked ho⟨ line⟩ m⟨ line⟩ I ⟨ line⟩ saw a worm ⟨ ⟩ suddenly out of the ground3
With the highest regards | Believe me | Yours truly | W Cunliffe Brooks | of 5 Grosvenor Square | London
Footnotes
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13629
- From
- William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Grosvenor Square, 5
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 323
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp damaged
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13629,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13629.xml