From G. H. Darwin [before 3 October 1873]1
New University Club, | St. James’s Street. S.W.
Dear Father,
I send you a draft of a letter to Nature (with a wide margin for corrections)—if you think it worth while correcting yr former letter.—2 And I think it is worth while, since everything you write attracts so much attention, that it is a pity to let people break their heads over your meaning. If you think of sending it you might have the proofs sent direct to me at Camb. & I wd. take the trouble off your hands.3 I think the letter expresses your meaning clearly— if it does’nt it is’nt worth your while to bother more about it.
I have been down to Greenwich this mg. to see Lenny & the observy.4 I am pretty well today tho’ I turn bilious every night.
Would you have sent to me by post (price 4d I think) the Sausage of beef tea wh. I gave to Mrs. Evans just before starting.5 Dr. C.6 wishes me to give up meat & everything solid when I get right down bad—& as I never know when that may be I shd. like to have it by me.—
I asked Dr. C about Edmund7 & he said his meaning was that he cd. never get well & that the only question was whether & for how long one cd. keep things Stationary & not that he was in a galloping consumption. He thinks it wd be wiser for him to go abroad for winter. I’m off tomorrow a.m.
Yrs | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9084
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- New University Club
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 28
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9084,” accessed on 26 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9084.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21