To William Bowman 19 April [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
April 19th
My dear Bowman
I send by Railway today the book which you lent me.—2 I could not help looking through many parts; & my wonder is that any us have eyes in our heads, seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to.
Many thanks | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Wells, John Soelberg. 1869. A treatise on the diseases of the eye. London: John Churchill & Sons.
Summary
Returns borrowed book. Is surprised that any of us have eyes "seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8292
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8292,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
