To Edward William Brayley1 7 February 1845
Down, Kent
Fe. 7th. 1845.
My dear Sir
You have my best wishes for your success in your present application. You are aware that I have never had an opportunity of hearing you lecture, & therefore cannot speak of your qualifications in that line; but I have great pleasure in adding, that I have always been struck by your remarkable powers in acquiring scientific knowledge of varied kinds, & by your extensive reading. I think it will be generally acknowledged, that a capacity of this nature, must be eminently serviceable in teaching a subject of so divesified a nature as Geology.—
Believe me dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin E. W. Brayley Esqe
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bellot, Hugh Hale. 1929. University College London, 1826-1926. London: University of London Press.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Discusses EWB’s application for a position and his qualifications.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-822
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward William Brayley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.41)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 822,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-822.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3