To William Bowman 26 September [1866]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sep 26
My dear Mr Bowman
I am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent me your Address;2 the whole has greatly interested me, & there is much in it quite new to me. I have been pleased to see your remarks on life having been continuous on this globe, & I admire your boldness tempered with due caution on the origin of Man.3
You read an excellent lesson to bigots of all kinds & that is a very striking passage in which you call the well-ascertained results of science “vox Dei”.4
With my thanks for the pleasure which you have given me believe me | yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bowman, William. 1866. The address in surgery. [Read 9 August 1866.] British Medical Journal (1866) pt 2: 186–97.
Summary
Thanks WB for his paper ["Address in surgery", Br. Med. J. (1866): 186–97, read at British Medical Association annual meeting, 9 Aug 1866].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5219
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5219,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5219.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14