To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]1
Down
Jan. 6th.
My dear Falconer
I return your letter to Sharpey received this morning from my Brother.2 Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium which I have ever received, or shall ever receive; and if one half—or one quarter be true and not exaggerated by your great kindness, I may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain. But I hope yet to do a little more work and justify your good opinion.
My dear Falconer | Yours most gratefully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4740
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 38
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4740,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4740.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
