To M. C. Lloyd 5 June [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 5th
My dear Miss Lloyd
I received yesterday a most spirited drawing of a dog, & I have heard to day that it was sent by you.2
I admire it much, but regret exceedingly that you should have taken so much trouble in vain; for two sketches of dogs in the same frame of mind are now actually in the hands of the engraver.3 I did not understand that Miss Bonham Carter was going to apply to you; but some little time ago I expressed in her presence my trouble about drawings; & she, I presume, wrote to you.—4 I had at that time one sketch which would do moderately well, & directly afterwards I received a second from a young artist, which seemed to me so true & spirited that I at once sent it off to be engraved.5
Pray accept my cordial thanks for your great kindness, & believe me | Yours truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Thanks her for drawing of dog.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8370
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Mary Charlotte Lloyd
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sherman Bull (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8370,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8370.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20