From J. F. McLennan 6 March 1871
London. 14 Old Burlington St | Burlington Gardens W
Mar. 6. 1871.
My dear Sir,
I feel highly honoured by you sending to me a copy of your work on the Descent of Man, & I heartily congratulate you on the completion of yr. labour of love.1
The book has only today reached me from Edinr. & I am looking forward to a treat in the study of it.2
Sometime perhaps the fates will allow myself to recur to those enquiries in which I am sure I shall find yr. work of the highest use; but of late they have been dead against me so that I have got little beyond the point where I was when I had the pleasure of seeing you.3
I am going to dine with Vernon Lushington tomorrow—, whose note to me is jubilant over your book.
I sincerely trust you are very well and beg you to believe me with great admiration & respect | Yrs. very truly | J F M’Lennan
Charles Darwin Esqre. | &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
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
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7549
- From
- John Ferguson McLennan
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Old Burlington St, 14
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7549,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7549.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
