To Robert Patterson 21 October [1860]1
Down, Bromley, Kent [Eastbourne]
Oct. 21
My dear Sir
I [would] like to thank you for so kindly taking the trouble of communicating the Rat V. Rabbit case.2 I am very glad to have all such facts, but it is doubtful whether I would require to use it, so I will not give trouble to your informant of inquiring.
With many thanks, pray3 believe me my dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Praeger, William E. 1935. Six unpublished letters of Charles Darwin. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 20: 711–5. [Vols. 4,5,8]
Summary
Thanks RP for communicating the "Rat v. Rabbit case".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2958
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Patterson
- Sent from
- Eastbourne Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Praeger 1935, p. 715
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2958,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2958.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8
