From Henry Holland [21 January 1862?]1
Brook Street
Tuesday
My dear Charles,
At last I have received an answer from Lord Tankerville;2 & I think a very satisfactory one.— I enclose his letter, & hope you will regard it in the same light
I trust you are all getting better.3 Ever your’s affly | H Holland
P.S | I wrote the other day to thank you for your paper on the Primula—4
Footnotes
The date is conjectured from the relationship to other letters of this period (see nn. 2 and 3, below). In 1862, 21 January fell on a Tuesday.
For CD’s interest in the Chillingham cattle, a breed kept on the Northumberland estate of Charles Augustus Bennet, sixth earl of Tankerville, see the letters from Henry Holland, [3–14] January [1862] and 15 January [1862], and the letter to Ludwig Rütimeyer, 15 [and 16] January [1862]. See also letter from C. A. Bennet, [9 February 1862].
Holland had heard of the incidence of influenza in the Darwin household (see letter from Henry Holland, 15 January [1862]).
Summary
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3400
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St
- Source of text
- DAR 166.2: 236
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3400,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3400.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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