From Reginald Darwin 31 May 1879
Fern, | Buxton.
May 31 1879
My dear Cousin
I have again to thank you for your generous thought of me, & am very glad to add the letter which you send me to my collection—1 The quaint style & “respectability” of a young man’s correspondence in those days, even with a near relative, is interesting, & shows in strong contrast with the letter of an ordinary collegian of the present day, who would have had a “narrow squeak” of being “spun”2—who had “gone in” for Boating &c, & who found it “quite too awfully jolly”—
I seem to know there was a story about the Robber, but cannot call it to mind—3 I hope very much that your change has done you good—4
Believe me, with best regards, Yours | affecty & gratefully | Reginald Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Summary
Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].
Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12072
- From
- Reginald Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Buxton
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 156–7
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12072,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12072.xml