From David Forbes 30 July 1870
11, York Place, | Portman Square, | London. W.
30 July 1870
Dear Mr Darwin
I leave this moment for Norway but write you these few lines at the request of Col Fox and some others of the council who wish me to ask if you could send a note if only a page to put in after the discussion of my paper as they say for the good of the journal—since the ethnological wants all the help it can from great names—1 You have now I suppose had the proofs of the entire paper as it is some days since I corrected the last proofsheets— the paper is over 100 pages and there are 7 plates, 3 of indians—but these are not finished yet by the lithographer I hope you will do this—as you know that you are really the cause of the paper appearing at all—for I do not pretend to be sufficiently strong on Ethnological matters as to rush into print had you not backed me on— I send you a copy of the sermon I gave some Sundays ago on Volcanos & hope it may interest you2
The Secretary—Mr Rudler3 Royal School of Mines—Jermyn Street will do all you wish if you write during my absence in Norway, I shall be away until the 20 August—
Believe me my dear Sir | Yours very truly | David Forbes
I shall not be offended if you “pitch into” me well
Footnotes
Bibliography
WWW: Who was who: a companion to Who’s who, containing the biographies of those who died during the period [1897–1995]. 9 vols. and cumulated index (1897–1990). London: Adam & Charles Black. 1920–96.
Summary
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7291
- From
- David Forbes
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, York Place, 11
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 145
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7291,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7291.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18