From F. V. Hayden 14 June 1870
Washington DC.
June 14th 1870.
Dear Sir
Your very kind letter came duly to hand.1 I send you a roll of maps today through the Smithsonian Institution—2 These maps will serve to aid you in following explorers over our far west. I will send you from time to time succh books or maps as you wish to make more clear, the results of examinations in that region. I start soon for Idaho & Montana with $25,000, for another summers labors.3 Will go along the Union Pacific Railroad to Salt Lake, thence northward to the sources of the Columbia & Missouri rivers.
Hoping that you are well and will long live to work out the grand results of your studies. I remain | your sincere admirer & reader | F. V. Hayden
Footnotes
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
Foster, Mike. 1994. Strange genius: the life of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden. Niwot, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers.
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. 1871. Preliminary report of the United States Geological Survey of Wyoming: and portions of contiguous territories. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Summary
Sends maps of U. S. Far West for CD to follow explorations.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7232
- From
- Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Washington
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 123
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7232,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7232.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
