From Charles Pritchard 24 January 1868
My dear Mr Darwin,
Accept my most hearty congratulations on your Son’s grand Success.1 Your delight & that of Mrs Darwin must indeed be enviably great.
Omnes omnia bona dicere.2 May your Son’s entire career be after the model of this beginning
Believe me | My dear Mr Darwin | Yours sincerely | C. Pritchard
Jan 24. 1868 | Cambridge
Footnotes
See letter to G. H. Darwin, 24 January [1868] and n. 2.
The quotation is from Terence’s The woman of Andros. The full quotation reads, ‘omnes omnia bona dicere et laudere fortunas meas, qui gnatum haberem tali ingenio praeditum.’ It may be translated, ‘Everyone spoke well of him, and they congratulated me on my good fortune in having a son endowed with such a disposition.’ (Terence 2001, pp. 58–9.)
Bibliography
Terence 2001. The woman of Andros, the self-tormentor, the Eunuch. Edited and translated by John Barsby. Loeb Classical Library.
Summary
Congratulations on success of CD’s son [George].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5797
- From
- Charles Pritchard
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 174: 79
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5797,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5797.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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