To W. E. Darwin [23 October – 20 November 1859]1
⇒ Wells Terrace | Ilkley | Otley | Yorkshire
Sunday
My dear William
I have got your letter, addressed to Mamma, & was glad to hear some news of your wanderings. Tell Miss Mayor2 that the London Library is not rich in scientific Books, but yet I believe is the best. If her friend writes to “The Librarian, London Library, St James Sqe” he or she will get all information. Nothing is easier than to become a member.3 It requires I think, some one to recommend; & everyone must know some one member.
You need not register your Pass Book, if you do not enclose a letter, it will go by Book Post (with ends open) & cost only 1d.
Here is a dreadful wet day—no baths, no nothing, & all the patients half dead with ennui.—
Farewell my dear Gulielmus—stick to your work,—I know I wish I had some work—
Your poor old ennuyè father | C. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
Summary
Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2497
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Ilkley
- Source of text
- DAR 210.6: 48
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2497,” accessed on 1 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2497.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
