From W. S. Dallas 6 February 1868
Yorkshire Philosophical Society | York
6 February 1868.
My dear Sir
The Hon. Secretary of the Y.P.S. sent me the enclosed letter to forward to you as he did not know your address.— I hope you will honour us by accepting the position.—1
I am so much out of the world here that I have neither seen nor heard anything of your book, but I suppose it has been cast upon the waters long since.— I have heard nothing yet from Mr. Murray.—2
Believe me | Your’s always truly | W. S. Dallas.
C. Darwin Esq. F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Forwards a letter from Secretary of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Hopes CD will honour them by accepting.
Has heard nothing of Variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5847
- From
- William Sweetland Dallas
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Yorks. Philos. Soc., York
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 11
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5847,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5847.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16