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Darwin Correspondence Project

From H. N. Moseley   5 February 1879

Coll. Exon.

Feb 5. 79.

Dear Mr Darwin

Very many thanks for your kind remarks about my book.1 It has been a great relief to me to find that you consider it a success and worthy of having been dedicated to you.

A Captain Charles Owen Chief Constable of Oxford and who was for a long while at the Cape of Good Hope was in my rooms a few days ago. He said he knew you well long ago and that he had collected beetles for you. and he wished to be remembered to you2   His son is going out with Mr Wallis Nash to Oregon as an assistant and he called to ask me about the country.3

Again thanking you for your kind letter | I remain | yours truly | H N Moseley

Footnotes

Charles Mostyn Owen (1818–94) served in the army in South Africa and became chief constable of Oxfordshire. He probably collected beetles for CD at Woodhouse, Rednal (West Felton), Shropshire, his family home. The Mostyn Owens were family friends of CD and he spent some of his university vacations at Woodhouse (see ‘Recollections’, p. 339, and Correspondence vol. 20, letter from S. H. Haliburton, 3 November [1872] and n. 3).
Mostyn Owen’s son Charles Mostyn Owen (1859–1938) emigrated to Oregon, USA, with Nash in 1879.

Bibliography

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.

‘Recollections’: Recollections of the development of my mind and character. By Charles Darwin. In Evolutionary writings, edited by James A. Secord. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008.

Summary

Sends regards from Capt. Charles Owen, who had collected beetles for CD.

Owen’s son is going to Oregon with Wallis Nash.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11860
From
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Exeter College, Oxford
Source of text
DAR 171: 258
Physical description
ALS 4pp

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