To Joseph Fayrer 1 September 1875
Bassett, Southampton
Sept. 1. 75
Dear Dr. Fayrer
I am very much obliged for your present just received.1 I have always felt a strange interest about the Tiger & shall be very glad to read your book.— Thanks for your offer of assistance in India, but I have at present no enquiry to make.—2
Your expedition with the Prince will be I shd. think most interesting & splendid.3
Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fayrer, Joseph. 1875. The royal tiger of Bengal, his life and death. London: J. & A. Churchill.
Summary
Thanks JF for his book.
At present has no observations he wishes made in India.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10145
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Fayrer, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Bassett
- Source of text
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 1629 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10145,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10145.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
