To Wallis Nash 27 March 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
March. 27 1878
My dear Mr. Nash
I consider your wish to dedicate your book to me a great compliment.1 It gives me, also, sincere pleasure, for no one has ever come to live near Down, whom we have liked & respected in at all the same degree as we do from our hearts Mrs Nash & yourself.— As I said yesterday to Mrs. Nash, your change of residence is an irreparable loss to our village.2
With good wishes for the success of your book, & congratulations that the chief labour is over, I remain | My dear Mr. Nash | Yours ever very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Nash, Wallis. 1878. Oregon: there and back in 1877. London: Macmillan and Co.
Smith, Kenneth G. V. and Dimick, R. E. 1976. Darwin’s ‘American’ neighbour. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8 (1976–8): 78–82.
Summary
Pleased that WN wishes to dedicate his book [Oregon: there and back (1878)] to him.
WN’s move from Down irreparable loss to the village.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11450A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Wallis Nash
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Patricia Nash (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11450A,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11450A.xml
