To H. N. Moseley 5 November 18761
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Nov. 5 1876
My dear Sir,
I am very much obliged to you for your kind present of the Japanese book, with its curious & amusing drawings.2 As I am no believer in Physiognomy I will not trouble you to lend me the other books. Many thanks also for the photograph (which however is not very clear) & for several of your papers on observations made during the voyage of the Challenger.3 It has been a grand thing for you to have taken part & done such capital work in the most memorable Scientific expedition which ever left England.
I have heard this morning from Ray Lankester, who tells me that you would like to pay me a visit.4 I can assure you that it will give me very great pleasure to make your acquaintance & to hear somewhat of what you have seen & done. But I must forewarn you that I am incapable of talking long with anyone, as my head suffers afterwards. If when you are next in London & can send me a line I shall be most happy if you will dine & sleep here. I can tell you the best route & time for this place when I hear from you
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Moseley, Henry Nottidge. 1874. On the structure and development of Peripatus capensis. [Read 21 May 1874.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 164: 757–82.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.
Would be pleased if HNM visited him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10663
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10663,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10663.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24