From G. H. Darwin to Richard Strachey [29 August 1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Friday
Dear General Strachey,
My father has asked me to write to you to thank you for your letter & to say that the information is very valuable to him.
He would have written himself but he has unfortunately been very ill for 4 days & is still in bed & I fear will remain so for some time.2
I am getting on very well with the globe & map3
It will be best I think to have the 32 sheets on separate pieces of paper & to fasten them on to a soft deal scaffolding of this form
which will hang against a wall & show th of the world. The maps to be fastened on by pins.
The globe will all pack up into this form
& tho’ small when packed looks gigantic when put together— It is on the scale of 320 miles to the inch. If I get it done before you go to Bradford should I send it to you at Clapham or shall it meet you at Bradford?4
Yours very sincerely | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9031
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Richard Strachey
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9031,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9031.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
