To J. N. Hoare 18 July [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 18.
Dear Sir
I have read with much interest the pages which you have been so kind as to point out, & the facts were quite new to me. There are not many persons who could thus illumine a sermon, but I have often regretted, how rarely sermons are made the means of instruction in the place of mere exhortation.2
Dear Sir Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hoare, John Newenham. 1875. Hospital Sunday. A sermon preached on Sunday, November 15th, 1874. Dublin. E. Ponsonby.
Summary
Compliments JNH on the instructive tone of his sermon [‘Hospital Sunday’ preached in Chapel Royal, Dublin, 15 Nov 1874].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10562
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Newenham Hoare
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division (M. F. Hales Autograph Collection (Mss24497))
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10562,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10562.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23