From G. H. Darwin [4 November 1874]1
Wedn.
My dear Father,
I am sorry that you shd. think that I ever wished that your work shd. be postponed to mine, & I gather from your letter that you think I ought not to have sent M.S to Norman without consulting you, But I thought he would know what time he had at his own disposal, & as he expressly wrote last week that he cd. undertake it, I don’t think I was very wrong in sending it—especially as 2 hrs wd. do the job.2 Immediately on getting Mother’s letter3 I wrote to tell him to get some one else to copy it, if it wd. delay your work. As I thought that, combined with yr. order that he was not to do it wd. be sufficient, I have not written again— I asked him to get some one else to copy it & I’ve no doubt he knows some one who can do so.
My cold has gone to my stomach a good deal & I’m pretty seedy, tho’ I’ve been playing tennis this a.m.
As I wrote yest. I will come home for a few days on this day week4
Yrs affectionately | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
GHD has been using E. Norman [CD’s copyist], and he apologises if this has caused delays to CD’s work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9708
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 44
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9708,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9708.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22