To ? 20 June [1861–8]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
June 20th
Dear Sir
As it will save you trouble of referring I send by this post a spare copy of the paper about which you enquire.— Permit me to remark that it was never in remote degree intended for publication & was written many years ago. I had no connection with the publication of these extracts beyond giving my permission.—2
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Mr. Wallace’s paper seems to me excellent.—
Footnotes
Summary
Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13879
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13879,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13879.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
