To W. D. Whitney 1 August [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Aug 1st.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind note & the newspaper abstract, which I have forwarded to Mr. Sayce, who is attending to nearly similar subject.—2 I shall be pleased to receive your paper when printed.—3 I send a copy of my own, which is really of hardly any value & the observations were made before the present admirable advances & interest in Philology.—4
I will give your message to my son5 & remain in Haste | Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Biographical sketch of an infant’: A biographical sketch of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [Shorter publications, pp. 409–16.]
Holden, Edward Singleton. 1877. On the vocabularies of children under two years of age. Transactions of the American Philological Association 8: 58–68.
Whitney, William Dwight. 1877. The principle of economy as a phonetic force. Transactions of the American Philological Association 8: 123–34.
Summary
Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.
Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11088
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Dwight Whitney
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11088,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11088.xml