To Charles Lyell 16 May [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 16th
My dear Lyell
I have just received the 4th. Edit of your Antiquity of Man, & I thank you sincerely for this present. I shall be very glad to go over carefully all the many parts which you mention in your Preface, as having been modified or added to.— The book seems to me larger than it was, & it must have cost you an immense amount of labour & thought to bring up to the present standard so many subjects.2
I hope that your health keeps fairly well.
I remain my dear Friend | Your old & true disciple | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lyell, Charles. 1873. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man, with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation. 4th edition, revised. London: John Murray.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8913
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.427)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8913,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8913.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21