To Henry Tibbats Stainton 20 October [1855]1
Down Bromley Kent
Oct. 20th
Dear Sir
As I do not now collect or work on any order of Insects, it would, I fear, be quite useless inserting my name.2
The slip, however, is quite correct.—
With much respect, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated on the basis that Stainton wrote to CD before publication of the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), of which Stainton was the editor (see n. 2, below). The preface to the volume was dated 7 December 1855.
Stainton was preparing the third volume of the Entomologist’s Annual (1856), in which he intended to include a list of British entomologists with addresses. CD’s name was not included in the list (Entomologist’s Annual 3 (1856): 14–25).
Summary
Would be useless to insert CD’s name [on masthead of Entomologists’ Annual] since he does not work on insects.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1767
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Tibbats Stainton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 15)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1767,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1767.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
letter