To James Brown Gibson [after 29 June 1862]1
Sir
I hope that you will permit me to return to you my sincere & cordial thanks for the kind manner with which you have acceded to my wishes in the endeavour the endeavour to find out whether there exists any re— [between] complexion & liability & tropical diseases.—2 Without your aid nothing whatever could have been done.—
The result may not [illeg] turn out a complete failure; but I have not ventured to make my request without [mature] consideration.—
With my sincere thanks for all your kindness I [hope] to remain | Your oblig Servt, | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3361
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Brown Gibson
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 4
- Physical description
- ADraftS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3361,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3361.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10