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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Henry Sidgwick   19 December 1874

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec 19th 74.

Dear Sir

It is extremely kind of you to have thought of sending me your work on the Methods of Ethics.1 Before long I hope to find time to read it, for it is subject which interests me deeply.

With very sincere thanks | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

There is a copy of Sidgwick’s Methods of ethics (Sidgwick 1874) in the Darwin Library–Down.

Bibliography

Sidgwick, Henry. 1874. The methods of ethics. London: Macmillan and Co.

Summary

Thanks for his Methods of ethics [1874].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9765F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Henry Sidgwick
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9765F,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9765F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22

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