To J. S. Henslow [7 October 1849]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Monday
My dear Henslow
I am extremely much obliged to you for your long letter on Benefit Clubs, which appears to me full of the most valuable suggestions: I have just sent it off to Mr Innes.—2 Possibly either he or I may have to trouble you with a few further queries, but I hope not. The rules sent are considerably different from some of our adjoining clubs.—
Many thanks also for the fossil cirripedes—which I am very glad to have, as I can now open & break as many as I require: do not be insulted at my returning the postage of the parcel.— I really do not know who can help you with regard to Secondary fossils, but I will not forget your wish.—3
I was ungrateful not to have thanked you for your Engraving,4 which I value much & shall have framed: it is very like, but I am not quite satisfied with it: I like in some respect the Photograph better.—
I enclose a letter just received from Hooker;5 I fear the greater part will be too Geolog. for Miss Henslow, but she will probably like to see parts of it.— When she returns it to me, will she be so good as to tell me how I ought to address a letter to him.— His thanks for my dull & few letters, I have most truly felt like burning coals on my head: my conscience acquits me of forgetting him, but it makes me feel very guilty of idleness & stupidity
Yours most truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Russell-Gebbett, Jean. 1977. Henslow of Hitcham: botanist, educationalist and clergyman. Lavenham, Suffolk: Terence Dalton.
Summary
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1283
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Stevens Henslow
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 93: A89–A90
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1283,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1283.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4