To G. C. Robertson 22 June [1877]1
Bassett, Southampton
June 22d
My dear Sir
The above address will explain why I have not answered your note sooner.—2 I can have no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette, but at the same time I wish that the Editor had first read the article, for though you have pleased me much by admitting it into ‘mind’, I cannot help doubting whether it is worthy of admission.—3
Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Biographical sketch of an infant’: A biographical sketch of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [Shorter publications, pp. 409–16.]
Summary
Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11011
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Croom Robertson
- Sent from
- Bassett
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11011,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11011.xml
