To C. L. Dodgson 10 December 1872
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec 10 1872
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind note & offer.1 If you are quite sure that you can spare the unmounted photo., I shd very much like to possess it, although I am doubtful whether I shall ever make any actual use of it.2
I half scruple accepting your very kind offer & I remain | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Dodgson’s note has not been found.
Dodgson had photographed Flora Rankin with a wide smile (see Taylor and Wakeling 2002, p. 89 and p. 91 plate 63). CD’s copy of this photograph is in DAR 53.1: C98; see plate on p. 562.
Summary
Thanks for offer of photograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8668
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll MS Eng 718.12: 2)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8668,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8668.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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