From St G. J. Mivart 4 October 1871
7 North Bank | N.W
Oct. 4th 1871.
My dear Sir
You must kindly excuse my delay in thanking you for your compliance with my request but I have only just returned home.1 With regard to the article I find on reperusal that it is undoubtedly clever but I should hardly have expected that you would think it worth republication as a serious defence of the position I attack. I am much vexed to find that Mr Macmillan did not send you the copy I requested & I beg you to believe it was not my fault.2
Believe me | My dear Sir | Your’s very truly | St Geo Mivart
C. Darwin Esq F.R.S. &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s article. Admits it is clever, but hardly expected CD to think it a serious defence of his position.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7986
- From
- St George Jackson Mivart
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, North Bank, 7
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 196
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7986,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7986.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19