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Darwin Correspondence Project

To James Sully   23 December 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec 23. 75

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for so very kindly sending me your work on ‘Sensation & Intuition’.1 I read it some time ago with great interest, & regretted that it had not been published earlier, so that I might have profitted by some of the discussions.

Dear Sir, Yours faithfully and obliged,

Charles Darwin

Footnotes

There is a lightly annotated copy of Sully 1874 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 794), and another two copies in the Darwin Library–Down.

Bibliography

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.

Sully, James. 1874. Sensation and intuition: studies in psychology and aesthetics. London: Henry S. King & Co.

Summary

Thanks JS for Sensation and intuition [1874]. Regrets that it was not published earlier, so he could have profited by some of the discussions.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10320
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
James Sully
Sent from
Down
Source of text
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (MS ADD 158/1-6/1)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10320,” accessed on 5 June 2025, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10320.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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