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
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
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11860,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11860.xml