To William Bowman 1 June [1876]1
H. Wedgwoods2 | Hopedene
June 1st
My dear Bowman
Your note has been forwarded to me here, & it was very kind of you to write to me.3 I shd. have enjoyed beyond measure hearing Donders, but in truth I have not strength to come to London today for the lecture.4 Pray remember me most kindly to him: I shall never forget his generous assistance to me formerly.—5
I have been admiring your beautiful house from this place, but have not been able to walk so far as yet: the gardener here has had instruction to act as a detective & report to me if you came down on a Sunday, when I shd have called & had the great pleasure of seeing you.6 But we leave this place next Wednesday morning7 & I fear you will not be here on Sunday.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Conferences on the special loan collection of scientific apparatus; chemistry etc.: South Kensington Museum: conferences held in connection with the special loan collection of scientific apparatus. 1876. Chemistry, biology, physical geography, geology, mineralogy, and meteorology. London: Chapman and Hall.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
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
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10521
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Hopedene
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10521,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10521.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24