To E. W. Lane 23 June 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 23. ’73
My dear Dr. Lane,
I am very much obliged for the present of your little book,1 which I will read as soon as I have finished another in hand. I never forget how much I owe to Hydropathy, although the last time I tried it, it seemed to do me harm. The days which I spent at Moor Park have left a most pleasant recollection on my mind.2 I hope you & all your family are well, & I beg you to give my kind & grateful remembrances to Lady Drysdale & Mrs. Lane.3
Believe me | My dear Dr. Lane | Yours sincerely ⟨ page excised⟩
P.S | My wife desires me to add her very kind remembrances to you all.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Browne, Janet. 1990. Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern. In The medical history of waters and spas, edited by Roy S. Porter. Medical History, supp. 10. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Browne, Janet. 2002. Charles Darwin. The power of place. Volume II of a biography. London: Pimlico.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Lane, Edward Wickstead. 1873. Old medicine and new. London: J. and A. Churchill.
Summary
Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8946
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Wickstead Lane
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.429)
- Physical description
- L(A) 3pp inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8946,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8946.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
