From Cuthbert Collingwood 30 March 1868
14 Gloucester Place | Greenwich
March 30/68
Dear Sir
Engaged as you must be in the great work upon which you have entered, I fancy you will find little time for the perusal of the book which I have had the pleasure of sending you.1 Still as one who has endeavoured to a certain extent to follow in your footsteps, I felt I could not do less than send you my journal of Researches—begging you however to kindly remember that I had but 18 months experience of travel.2
I very much regret that owing to a mistake the book should arrive a week or so after date & beg you to be kind enough to excuse it—
I am dear Sir | very faithfully yours | Cuthbert Collingwood
Charles Darwin Esq F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collingwood, Cuthbert. 1868. Rambles of a naturalist on the shores and waters of the China Sea: being observations in natural history during a voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, etc., made in Her Majesty’s vessels in 1866 and 1867. London: John Murray.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6073
- From
- Cuthbert Collingwood
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Greenwich
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 214
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6073,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6073.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16