To ? 29 March [1862–9]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Mar 29
Dear Sir
I am extremely sorry that you have had so much trouble in writing to me at such length. The intended publication seems highly promising & valuable & I am sure I wish it all success.2 But the state of my health conjoined with the quantity of matter which I wish to publish renders it impossible that I shd be a contributor; and this answer I have been compelled unwillingly to make on previous occasions.
I should be proud to be a fellow labourer, but as there is no chance of my writing in the intended Periodical, I do not think it wd be right that my name shd appear.
I beg leave to repeat my regret for the trouble which I have inadvertently caused you, & with my best wishes for the success of your undertaking, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13878
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13878,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13878.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
