To Joseph Kaines?1 8 April 1872
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Ap 8. 1872
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for having sent me your interesting paper & for yr kind remarks about my works.2 Although I formerly read Miss Martineau’s book & some others on Comte I had entirely forgotten his striking observations on the relations of Man to the lower forms of life.3
Pray believe me dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.
CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8278
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.413)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8278,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8278.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20