To A. B. Buckley 6 July [1881]1
From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.
July 6th.
We returned home only late last night.—2 I shall be much pleased to read over your article, but I am not a good critic3
I have many letters to answer
C. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to the Darwins returning home on 5 July (see n. 2, below), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter to A. B. Buckley, 11 July 1881.
The Darwins arrived home from the Lake District on 5 July 1881 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
Buckley had evidently asked CD to read the manuscript of her entry on Charles Lyell for the ninth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Buckley 1883); see also letter to A. B. Buckley, 11 July 1881.
Bibliography
Buckley, Arabella Burton. 1883. Lyell, Sir Charles (1797–1875). In EB 9th ed. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black.
Summary
Will be glad to read over her article.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13234
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arabella Burton Buckley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
- Physical description
- ApcS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13234,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13234.xml
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