To Woodbine Parish [January 1839?]
‘I like your book1 very much; it cannot fail to be extremely interesting, I should think, to all those who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas.’
Footnotes
Bibliography
Parish, Woodbine. 1838. Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de la Plata: their present state, trade, and debt; with some account from original documents of the progress of geographical discovery in those parts of South America during the last sixty years. London.
Summary
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-398
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Woodbine Parish
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- , p. 412 n.
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 398,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-398.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
