From Alexander Agassiz 22 October 1870
London,
Oct. 22, 1870.
My dear Mr. Darwin:—
Hearing you are in town, I write to ask you if you will allow me to come and bid you good-bye before we sail.1 I go to Ireland on Thursday next, in the evening, to see the plunder of the last Porcupine Expedition,2 but any time you can receive me before that it would be a great pleasure for me to see you again before I leave this side of the Atlantic, where I have had such a charming reception and have I trust learned a good deal which will not come amiss in America.
With the kindest remembrances of Mrs. Agassiz and myself to Mrs. Darwin and your family, believe me always | Yours very truly | Alex Agassiz.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Dobbs, David. 2005. Reef madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the meaning of coral. New York: Pantheon Books.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7349
- From
- Alexander Agassiz
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7349,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
