To Thomas Meehan 19 March [1873]1
Down. | Beckenham Kent. [16 Montague Street, London.]
March 19th.
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind letter of March 3rd.— I beg you to thank Professor Cope for his Photograph; which I am glad to possess but I am sorry to say that I never received yours.2 I am writing this away from my home & on my return shall no doubt find your paper on “Old & new”.—3 I have never been able to digest completely your views on sex or vitality or vigour, but the intellectual digestion of the old is always slow & feeble. I shall be particularly glad to see your statements about the color of the flower & sex, and to hear whether you do not meet exceptions to the Rule.— I quite agree with you that there (are) no such real essences in nature as genera,— only more or less broken groups of species—
Wishing you all success in your interesting observations— I remain my dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8816
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Meehan
- Sent from
- London, Montague St, 16 Down letterhead
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 352
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8816,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8816.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
