From C. C. Graham 17 April 1880
Louisville,
April 17th., 1880.
No answer requested
Dear Sir,
My letter was published without my knowledge or consent and I send you the paper to show you our backwoods style of Journalism on the “Dark & Bloody Ground” now called Kentucky; which in my early days was a howling wilderness of Savages and wild beasts.1 There is a fire proof gallery in our State House at Frankfort now being finished where your handsomely framed letter may hang for ages after you are gone.2 I am now near ninety six (96) but can and do walk my twenty miles a day.
Christopher Columbus Graham, M.D.
written by granddaugh.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Eckert, Allan, W. 1995. That dark and bloody river: chronicles of the Ohio River Valley. New York: Bantam Books.
Summary
CD’s framed letter may be hung in a fireproof gallery in the State House, now being finished.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12581
- From
- Christopher Columbus Graham
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Louisville, Ky.
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 82
- Physical description
- pc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12581,” accessed on 6 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12581.xml
