To John Phillips 28 January [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 28th
My dear Phillips
I have received this morning your very kind present;2 but I am almost ashamed to accept so beautiful a book in return for my old & dry works on Rocks.—3
With very sincere thanks. Believe me. Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856].
Phillips 1855. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. The work includes a series of views of Yorkshire taken from sketches by Phillips.
Geology of ‘Beagle’. See letter to John Phillips, 18 January [1856], n. 6.
Summary
Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1828
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Phillips
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1828,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1828.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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