From I. E. Aylmer 5 December 1867
Havelock House | Shanklin | Isle of Wight
5th. Dec 67.
Dear Sir
I return your proofs, with hearty thanks for your courtesy and kindness.1
I have made extracts from them in my paper on Chillingham, and if you will permit me, I shall let you see the proof in order, that you may be perfectly satisfied with the use I have made of your labour.2
Lord and Lady Tankerville3 or old friends of mine— And I was very anxious to do justice to their beautiful place and fine old Cattle, partly as a return for much personal kindness—and partly because being a Northumbrian myself, I like our county to have some honour paid it in the current literature of the day.
Believe me yours | gratefully | I E Aylmer
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks CD for showing him proofs [of Variation] relating to cattle at Chillingham Park [see Variation 1: 81, 83–4]; has made abstracts of them for his own article.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5706
- From
- Isabella Elinor Darling/Isabella Elinor Aylmer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Shanklin
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 136
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5706,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5706.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
