To H. W. Bates 11 June [1862]1
Down Bromley Kent
June 11th
Dear Bates.
The writer of the enclosed is my Brother-in-law who studies & writes on Language.2 Can you answer his question & tell me? I hope that your Book progresses & all goes well.—3 I have been not so well lately—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1866. On the origin of language. London: N. Trübner & Co.
Summary
Encloses a question [missing] concerning language [from Hensleigh Wedgwood].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3596
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Walter Bates
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.284)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3596,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3596.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
