From H. W. Bates 25 January 1862
King St Leicester
25 Jany 1862
My Dear Sir
I found the returned M.S & your kind letter when I came home after 8 days stay in town chiefly occupied by studies relative to the travels.1 I hope your good opinion of the 2nd chapter will be equally merited by the rest. I will now trouble you to write to Mr. Murray, as there is quite enough ready for him to form an opinion of the work.2
I will not write more at the present time— The complaint which I heard in London has afflicted your family has extended to here— I am now suffering from a kind of influenza with some symtoms of an old ague but it has not upset me completely at present3
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks CD for returned MS and letter with its good opinion. Asks CD to write to Murray.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3412
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leicester
- Source of text
- DAR 160.1: 65a
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3412,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3412.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10