From R. B. Carter 17 October 1881
69, Wimpole Street, | Cavendish Square. W.
october 17th, 1881.
sir,
i cannot doubt that you often receive applications for counsel or help in matters relating to your special work, and i have been told that you treat them indulgently. i can only hope that you will extend indulgence to me.
at the approaching ‘health congress’ at brighton, i have undertaken to give an address upon ‘eyesight;’ and the fraction of the very large subject which i have selected relates to the duty of handing down unimpaired to posterity the organs which we have received from our progenitors.1 i am desirous to introduce a necessarily very brief outline of the probable course of development of the eye by selection; and i shall be very grateful to you if you will assist me in choosing the best examples of probable stages of the process, or the best illustrations of its course. if you would kindly allow me to have an interview with you on the subject, i will come down any afternoon that you may appoint; and, as i have heard that it fatigues you to talk for more than a short time, i will be careful not to trespass upon you unduly.
i must beg you to accept my apologies for troubling you, and i am, sir, | faithfully yours, | R Brudenell Carter
charles darwin esq., f.r.s.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Carter, Robert Brudenell. 1881. On eyesight. [Address to working men and women, 17 December 1881.] In Transactions of the Brighton Health Congress. London: E. Marlborough and Co. Brighton: John Beal and Co.
Summary
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13409
- From
- Robert Brudenell Carter
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Wimpole St, 69
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 51
- Physical description
- TLS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13409,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13409.xml