From Cuthbert Collingwood 20 February 1866
14 Gloucester Place | Greenwich SE
Feb 20/66
Dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your kind letter,1 & I shall not fail to attend to the points mentioned in it. I hardly hoped to see you, but I could not leave without having had some communication with you, & am most desirous of obtaining suggestions by which I may turn my cruise to good account—2
I leave by the Marseilles mail next Monday
I am dear Sir | very truly yours | Cuthbert Collingwood
Charles Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collingwood, Cuthbert. 1868. Rambles of a naturalist on the shores and waters of the China Sea: being observations in natural history during a voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, etc., made in Her Majesty’s vessels in 1866 and 1867. London: John Murray.
Summary
Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5011
- From
- Cuthbert Collingwood
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Greenwich
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 213
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5011,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5011.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14
