To J. J. Briggs 16 February [1863]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Feb. 16th
Dear Sir
Absence from home during the last ten days must plead my excuse for not having earlier thanked you most sincerely for your kind & to me very valuable letter, which gives me just the facts, which I wanted & which will be very useful to me to quote.1
with my renewed thanks | Pray believe me | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Sends belated thanks for the useful facts which he plans to quote. [See 3963.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3992A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Joseph Briggs
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- Derby FE 17 63
- Source of text
- Mrs H. Codd (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3992A,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3992A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
