To T. C. Eyton 8 June [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 8th
Dear Eyton
It was very kind of you to write.2 I think the story must be a cock & a Bull, as Swinhoe has worked the Nat. Hist. of Formosa so well, & wd surely have heard of so strange a case. But if the writer is not old & seems to you credible, I shd. be grateful for the extract. I could send it to Swinhoe who is now in China.3
I sincerely hope that you keep well & strong. It is many years since we met.—4 My health is always very poor, & I can do nothing but live the quietest life & work a little in natural History.
Believe me dear Eyton | with never-failing pleasant remembrances of old days | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7809
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7809,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
