To Charles Lovegrove 9 July [1861?]1
Down
July 9th
My dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for the trouble which you have so kindly taken for me.—2 I am sorry not to have the pedigree of your pretty pony: but the information sent will be very useful to me, more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway, and did not know whether fully to believe.—3
With my best thanks, Believe me My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13823
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lovegrove
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13823,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13823.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9