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To Leonard Jenyns   24 January [1862]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 24th

My dear Jenyns

I have to thank you for two kind notes.2 I received the proof-sheets this morning—altered only a few words & forwarded by todays post to the Printers. I am heartily glad that you have undertaken this memoir of poor dear Henslow, & that your labours are over & that it will soon appear.—3 I shall read it with deep interest. His death has indeed been a cruel loss to many.—

I hope you keep well & tolerably happy. We lately have had a wretched household of invalids.—4 I often look back to the happy & unanxious days of Cambridge.—5

My dear Jenyns | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Do you ever see F. Hope at Bath;6 if you do please give him my very kind remembrances.—

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the reference to Jenyns’s memoir of John Stevens Henslow (Jenyns 1862; see n. 3, below).
2
Letters from Leonard Jenyns, 31 December 1861 (Correspondence vol. 9) and 22 January [1862].
3
Jenyns’s memoir of his brother-in-law, John Stevens Henslow, (Jenyns 1862) was published in May 1862 (Publishers’ Circular 25: 223). CD’s contribution to this memoir is reprinted in Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix X (see also Collected papers 2: 72–4).
4
Many members of CD’s household had been ill with influenza (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
5
CD was an undergraduate at Cambridge when he first met Jenyns, at that time vicar of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire. They had a shared interest in entomology, occasionally going on entomological excursions together (see Correspondence vol. 1).
6
Frederick William Hope, the son of one of the Darwins’ Shropshire neighbours, had assisted CD with his early entomological collecting (see Correspondence vol. 1). He lived in London, but travelled for the sake of his health (Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 6 (1862): xci). Jenyns settled in Bath in 1860.

Bibliography

Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, late rector of Hitcham, and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. London: John Van Voorst.

Summary

CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3410
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Physical description
ALS 4pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3410,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3410.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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