To C. G. Semper 24 July [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 24th
My dear Sir
I am uncommonly pleased that you will accept the machine, & I heartily thank you for your too kind letter.2 Some persons in England & America have got quite accustomed to its use (I found that I was too old to learn) & regularly employ it for their correspondence.3 If it should aid you in writing out your most valuable researches, it will be a very great satisfaction to me. It shall be sent tomorrow morning to the Makers to be cleaned & packed, & I will tell them to forward it to Mr. Hermann.4 It would be advisable for you to write to him, as they may be surprised at the Bank & refuse to receive a large & heavy case.— I have urged the makers to have it packed & sent off immediately.
Believe me, my dear Sir | Yours very truly | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Pleased CGS will accept machine.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11629
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Gottfried Semper
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/58)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11629,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11629.xml
