To Leonard Jenyns 24 May [1862]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 24th
Dear Jenyns
I thank you most sincerely for your kind present of your memoir of Henslow.2 I have read about half & it has interested me much. I did not think that I could have venerated him more than I did; but your Book has even exalted his character in my eyes. From turning over the pages of the latter half I shd. think your account would be invaluable to any Clergyman who wished to follow poor dear Henslow’s noble example. What an admirable man he was.
I hope that you are yourself pretty well. I cannot say much for my own health.
With sincere thanks, believe me dear Jenyns | Yours very truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, late rector of Hitcham, and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. London: John Van Voorst.
Summary
Thanks LJ for Memoir of Henslow; thinks it will be invaluable as an example to other clergymen.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3569
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3569,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
