To Francis Galton 13 May [1860]1
Down Bromley Kent
May 13th
Dear Galton
I have in simple truth been quite unreasonable in begging favours of you; but yet I am going to beg one more.— I remember that you said that you knew Mr M. Parkyns.2 If you know him well enough to supplicate an answer to the enclosed query, will you do so for me?3 If you do not, tear up the question; I would not trouble you if I were not really anxious for information on the point—
Humbly begging forgiveness, I am | Dear Galton | Yours very sincerely | 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–.
Parkyns, Mansfield. 1853. Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years’ residence and travels in that country. 2 vols. London.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2799
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Galton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/6)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2799,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2799.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8