To William Ogle 17 January 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan. 17th 1882
My dear Ogle
I am very much obliged to you for your gift of your Aristotle. By turning over the pages I suspect that your Introduction will interest me more than the text, notwithstanding that he was such a wonderful old fellow.—1
Pray believe me | Yours sincerely & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ogle, William, trans. 1882. Aristotle on the parts of animals. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
Summary
Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13622
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13622,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13622.xml
