To G. C. Wallich [20 March 1872]1
9. Devonshire St | Portland Place
Wednesday
My dear Sir
At last I have got your negative from the Heliotype Coy.—& it appears not in the least injured.—2 The manager tells me that he has succeeded in making a very good new negative. The Coy. gives me a written guarantee that no negative used in my Book shall be used for any other purpose.—3
I thank you sincerely for the use of this beautiful work of art, which, however, will make all the others on the same Plate look ugly.—
My dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
I return the parcel by my servant. I go home to Down, tomorrow morning.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Prodger, Phillip. 2009. Darwin’s camera: art and photography in the theory of evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Summary
Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8248
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Charles Wallich
- Sent from
- London, Devonshire St, 9
- Source of text
- Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn (SANT/BEQ/4/4/55A)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8248,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8248.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
