To William Robinson 4 January 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 4th— 1876
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your kind gift of six copies of the “Garden”, with a drawing of myself & a notice of my works.1 This notice is drawn up in the most generous spirit & is highly honourable to me.
I thank the writer very sincerely & remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Robinson had founded the Garden, a weekly illustrated horticultural magazine, in 1871. CD’s engraved portrait appeared as the frontispiece to the supplement to the issue of 1 January 1876, together with an unsigned account of his botanical publications (Garden 8 (1875): xi–xii).
Summary
Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10346
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Robinson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (28 September 2017, lot 37)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10346,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10346.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
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