To H. N. Moseley 26 November [1878]1
London
Nov. 26th.
Dear Moseley
Your proposal to dedicate your book to me, I look at as a great honour.2 Nothing whatever gives me so much pleasure as to think that my work has at all encouraged in others a taste for Natural History, & to believe that this is so in your case is an especial pleasure to me; for you must allow me to say that your several papers & your conversation have led me to believe that you have a grand career before you in Biology.—3
I received your letter late last night, but the proof-sheets had not yesterday arrived at Down, but book-packets often come a day after date.— We return home early tomorrow (27th) morning & I do not doubt that I shall find there the sheets—4 They shall be returned, after I have glanced over a few pages, by tomorrows post, as I fear that you will already have been inconvenienced by the delay— I feel a strong conviction that your book will prove very interesting to all naturalists, & I am very glad that it will soon be published.—
Again thanking you, I remain, | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Moseley, Henry Nottidge. 1879. Notes by a naturalist on the ‘Challenger’, being an account of various observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ round the world, in the years 1872–1876. London: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11762
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 10)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11762,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11762.xml