From Edward Wilson 12 February 1869
Hayes | Bromley, Kent.
12 Feby 1869
My dear Mr Darwin
For long past I have been promising myself a leisure day in which I could drive over & return you the wonderful book of the beavers, which you were so kind as to lend me.1 But one day it is “fund Committee of Society of Arts”, another “Council for Colonial Society” another “Emigration Association” & so on till one really never gets a day to oneself.2 “No rest but the grave” &c as the song says!3 I trust that I have not inconvenienced you or hindered the great work by retaining it? It is very interesting & the man himself quite an enthusiast in the cause of his most intelligent friends. The particulars of their dam-building are certainly most astonishing.
With kindest regards to Mrs Darwin & the young ladies4 I am Dear Sir | Yours very truly | Edw Wilson
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bishop, Henry Rowley. [1864]. The pilgrim of love: recitative and romance. London: Robert Cocks & Co.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Returns a book on beavers borrowed from CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6611
- From
- Edward Wilson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Hayes, Kent
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 126
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6611,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6611.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17