To John Scott 8 January [1864]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Jan 8th
Dear Sir
I am obliged for your two notes2 & am glad to hear that your paper went off successfully without bitter opposition.—3 I am hardly ever able to go out anywhere.— Pray excuse brevity, as I am far from well today & overwhelmed with things which must be done.4
Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13882
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Scott
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13882,” accessed on 25 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13882.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12