From William Bowman 3 September [1869]1
North End | Hampstead
Sept. 3rd
My dear Mr Darwin,
Profr. Donders of Utrecht is with me, and if you should be at home and able to receive a call from us on Tuesday next, we would do ourselves the pleasure of coming to Bromley but I write beforehand to ascertain—thinking it very likely you may be from home at this season.—2
I know of no one abroad more instructed in all recent progress or more able to appreciate your works—
I hope next year he will pass a month with me but on this occasion his stay is very short & he leaves on Wednesday— I have asked him to think over the points you referred to me from Sir C. Bell’s works—3
Yours very truly | W Bowman
C. Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bell, Charles. 1844. The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts. Preface by George Bell, and an appendix on the nervous system by Alexander Shaw. 3d edition, enlarged. London: John Murray.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6877
- From
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Hampstead
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6877,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6877.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17