From Charles John Robinson [1866?]1
Harewood | Ross. Herefordshire
My dear Mr Darwin,
I cannot resist the pleasure of telling you how gratified I have been to hear of your restoration to health.
Your name was mentioned the other night at dinner at the Deanery2 & my neighbour Mr. Herbert—(our County Court Judge)—in answer to my enquiries, gave me the very welcome news.3
I pay him a visit next week in order to meet your old friend Charles Whitley.4
In the few years that have passed since I last had the pleasure of seeing you I have had to endure many sorrows. The loss of my wife in her first confinement &—almost simultaneously—the death of my father & mother—have left me very solitary.5
If I am not wholly forgotten, allow me to offer my kind regards to Mrs. & Miss Darwin as well as to yourself—6 for whom I trust there are many years of health & fame in store.
Yours very sincerely, | Charles J Robinson
I have a small living (Norton Canon) in this county, where I am building a Vicarage house—restoring Church & School7 & otherwise following the ordinary imprudent course wh. my brethren adopt.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
LL: The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. 3 vols. London: John Murray. 1887–8.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Summary
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4966
- From
- Charles John Robinson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Harewood, Ross, Herefordshire
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 188
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp sketch
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4966,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4966.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14