From James Paget 25 July 1879
1, Harewood Place, | Hanover Square, | W.
July 25, 1879.
My dear Darwin
I am very sorry that I cannot send you the promised volume— I saw it at the Library of the College of Surgeons and thought it certain that a copy of it would be in the Library of the Medico Chirurgical Society from which I can take-out books. But it appears that their Biographie Médicale is a very rare book, and the Librarian of the Society has long been trying in vain to get a copy.1
What shall I do? Is there a chance that you or either of your sons will be able to go to the College?2 Flower will in a few minutes get the book to his own room; for the Librarian knows it—3 Or shall I send you an abstract of the biography? My son will think it real happiness to make it for you—4
Sincerely your’s | James Paget.
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Biographie médicale: Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale. Edited by Antoine-Jacques-Louis Jourdan. 7 vols. Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke. 1820–5.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus Darwin, der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424.
Summary
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12172
- From
- James Paget, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Harewood Place, 1
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 194
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12172,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12172.xml
