From William Bowman 5 October 1866
Dumbleton Hall
Oct 5. 1866
Dear Mr Darwin
I must write one line to say how pleased I am that any little effort of mine should have met your approval—1 With no wide or accurate acquaintance with the grounds of the great argument to which you have contributed so much and so powerfully, I cannot say I have any remaining doubt as to how the future will regard it. So that I could not honestly have expressed myself otherwise than I did if I touched upon it at all—and I felt that the occasion called for or at least admitted of some allusion to it.2
I was very near troubling you with an afternoon call one Sunday last Summer which I was spending with Lord Cranworth—3 Yesterday I had the pleasure of inscribing my name near yours in Mrs Dent’s book at Sudeley.4
Yrs very sincerely | W Bowman
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Summary
Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5232
- From
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Dumbleton Hall
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 266
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5232,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5232.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14