From Henry Holland 27 January [1868]1
Brook Street
Jany 27th
My dear Charles
One line, to congratulate you, which I do sincerely & warmly, on the success of your Son at Cambridge.2 May it be an augury of future success & eminence in his life!— Pray offer my congratulations also to your wife,—whose satisfaction in the event will I know equal your own.
I conclude, from Murray’s information that I shall very soon receive your two volumes.3 I thank you for them now by anticipation; I shall not further write regarding them, until I have well mastered their contents
Ever your’s affy | H Holland
PS. I learn that the author of the “Darwinian Theory Examined”, is a solitary recluse man, & singular in some of his antecedents; but the person telling me this, will not give the name.4 The volume, as far as I can see, is not known much beyond those to whom copies were sent— I was one of these
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Beverley, Robert Mackenzie.] 1867. The Darwinian theory of the transmutation of species examined by a graduate of the University of Cambridge. London: James Nisbet & Co.
Cambridge University calendar: The Cambridge University calendar. Cambridge: W. Page [and others]. 1796–1950.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5805
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 248
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5805,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5805.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
