From Alfred Newton 29 May 1871
Magd. Coll.
29 May 1871.
Dear Mr. Darwin
⟨remainder of page missing⟩ cannot be urged. It is in Arthur Adams’s ‘Travels of a Naturalist’1 (London, ⟨remainder of page missing⟩
I am very sorry to think that this is the last term that we shall have your son Frank with us.2
With kind regards to all your circle, believe me | Yours very Truly | Alfred Newton
Footnotes
Bibliography
Adams, Arthur. 1870. Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria. London: Hurst and Blackett.
Cambridge University calendar: The Cambridge University calendar. Cambridge: W. Page [and others]. 1796–1950.
Descent 2d ed.: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. London: John Murray. 1874.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7778
- From
- Alfred Newton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 88: 170–1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7778,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7778.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19