To Leonard Blomefield 17 April [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
April 17th
My dear Jenyns
I cannot begin a note to you in any other way, though no doubt you are well accustomed to your new name.2 I write merely to thank you for your essay on Local Biology.3 It has interested me much; & I doubt whether there is another man who could have collected so many valuable suggestions & curious facts.— I hope that you keep fairly well. As for myself I am much as usual, but with care & much discomfort am able to work a few hours almost every day.
With cordial recollections of old times, believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Blomefield, Leonard. 1872. Local biology, followed by remarks on the faunas of Bath and Somerset. [Read 13 November 1872.] Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 2 (1870–3): 373–426.
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
Thanks LB for his essay on local biology.
CD with much care and discomfort is now able to work a few hours almost every day.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8863
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (LET3016)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8863,” accessed on 14 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8863.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
