To J. G. Fenwick 19 March 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.| Railway Station | Orpington S.E.R.
March 19. 1876
Dear Sir
I have been greatly interested and amused by your letter.1 The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some “orderlings” in my own composition, and I wish that I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring. I daresay you know my friend F. Galton’s book on Hereditary Genius,2 & I will let him read your letter as I am sure it will interest him
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences. London: Macmillan.
Summary
"The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some ""orderlings"" in my own composition, and I wish I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10420
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John George Fenwick
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Rare and Special Books Collection of the University Libraries
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10420,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10420.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
