To G. C. Robertson 27 April 1877
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.) [6 Queen Anne Street, London.]
April 27th/ 77/
Dear Sir
I hope that you will be so good as to take the trouble to read the enclosed M.S. & if you think it fit for publication in your admirable Journal of Mind, I shall be gratified.—1 If you do not think it fit, as is very likely, will you please to return it to me. I hope that you will read it in an extra critical spirit, as I cannot judge whether it is worth publishing from having been so so much interested in watching the dawn of the several faculties in my own infant.— I may add that I shd. never have thought of sending you the M.S. had not M. Taine’s article appeared in your Journal.2 If my M.S. is printed I think that I had better see a proof.
I remain Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Biographical sketch of an infant’: A biographical sketch of an infant. By Charles Darwin. Mind 2 (1877): 285–94. [Shorter publications, pp. 409–16.]
Taine, Hippolyte. 1876. Note sur l’acquisition du langage chez les enfants et dans l’espèce humaine. Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger 1: 5–23.
Taine, Hippolyte. 1877. On the acquisition of language by children. Mind 2: 252–9.
Summary
CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10943
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Croom Robertson
- Sent from
- London Down letterhead
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10943,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10943.xml
