From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Celane Lodge | Tunbridge Wells
Jany. 2nd/77
Dear Mr. Darwin
I shall be very pleased if you find anything in my researches in Crete that will prove of interest to you—1 I thought they might at this moment, as Crete is in some degree linked with the Eastern Question—2 So digging some remnant copies out of the dust of my publishers stores I asked our Secretary Mr. White to be kind enough to distribute them to the Fellows, as they come to the Royal Society, whose names I had selected, or to send them by Post if they did not put in an appearance—3 Therefore I told White to say as they were presented, that I neither expected thanks nor acknowledgement under the circumstances—Merely wanting a place for the volumes upon the shelves of those among the acquaintances or friends however slight, who I thought would thus give them room— I think we have once if not twice met in days past—In the days of poor Edward Forbes—4 That, and more especially your connection—distinguished connection with the Old Surveying Branch of the Service, as it was under Beaufort! induced me to desire to offer you a set—as you troubled yourself to write, and already shewn that the illustrations have attracted your attention, it has pleased and gratified5
Yours faithly. | T Spratt
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854.
Narrative: Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. [Edited by Robert FitzRoy.] 3 vols. and appendix. London: Henry Colburn. 1839.
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.
Spratt, Thomas Abel Brimage. 1865. Travels and researches in Crete. 2 vols. London: John Van Voorst.
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10767
- From
- Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Tunbridge Wells
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 240
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10767,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10767.xml