To C. L. Balch 15 April 1871
Down Beckenham, Kent, S.E.,
April 15, 1871
To Professor Charles L. Balch, Corresponding Secretary
New York Liberal Club.
Dear Sir:
I am much obliged for your extremely kind note and for the report of your lecture which you have been good enough to send.1 I am aware that I have but few supporters in your country. Should the Liberal Club do me the honor of electing me an honorary member I shall feel much flattered.
Would you be so good as to say to Mr. McDonald2 that I enclose four photographs for his acceptance: but I should fear that it could never be worth his while to execute a bust of me.3
Pray believe me, dear sir, yours faithfully, Ch. Darwin.
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.
Summary
Thanks for the report of CLB’s lecture about Descent to the New York Liberal Club on 3 March 1871.
Sends four photographs of himself for the sculptor J. W. A. MacDonald.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7687F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Leland Balch
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- New York World, 8 May 1871
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7687F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7687F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
