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To A. W. Bennett   9 November [1869]1

Down

Nov. 9th

Dear Sir

Absence from home has prevented my returning the Proofs at once.—2 I have made one or two trifling corrections. The notice seems to me very good & is, I am sure, highly honourable to me.—3

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

P.S. I hope you will kindly send me a copy of your Journal4

Footnotes

The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. W. Bennett to Nature, 8 November 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17).
CD was visiting his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, in London from 1 to 9 November 1869 (Correspondence vol. 17, Appendix II). This was the only year in which he arrived home at Down on or very shortly before 9 November.
Bennett published a note in the second issue of the newly established journal Nature summarising correspondence he had had with CD about the fertilisation of winter-flowering plants (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from A. W. Bennett to Nature, 8 November 1869). The letter was published in Nature on 11 November 1869. Bennett was the biological subeditor of Nature.
CD made his first comments on Nature in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] (Correspondence vol. 17).

Summary

Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6980,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6980.xml

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