To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
36 Grt. Marlbro’ St—
Thursday
My dear Owen.
Many thanks for your note. I cannot let you leave London, without saying how very sorry I am to hear you are not well. I cannot help taking a part of this on my own conscience. I am afraid your working up Macrauchenia,1 must have done you harm.—
I think the new name a very good one.—2
I have a revise of the description of Toxodon ready, but I purposely do not send it.— When you return, and are quite comfortable again, you will be able to look over the whole revise together.— I will see about getting a sheet of Macrauchenia set up.—
The manner, in which you mention in your letter the prospect of all the trouble, which your part must cost you, is to me deeply gratifying. —
Goodbye Dear Owen | Let me know when you come back, & I sincerely trust, quite well again | Yrs. C. Darwin
I did not receive with your note any engravings.— But it of no sort of consequence. I believe there is also a plate of head (redrawn) of great Armadillo, which you have not given me, as you intended.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Mammalia: Pt 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle … during the years 1831 to 1836. By Richard Owen. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1839–43.
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-396
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Owen
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 396,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-396.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2