To William Bowman 7 August [1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Aug. 7th
Dear Bowman
Very many thanks for your kind note & clear answers to my queries, which are valuable to me.—2 I hope to do a little more work in natural science,—much is out of the question—but I agree with you entirely that no one can say how glorious the future prospect of knowledge is.— What an instance the spectroscope is!3
With hearty thanks for your uniform kindness— believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Summary
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5601
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5601,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5601.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
