To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]1
36 Grt. Marlborough Stt.—
My dear Sir
I received a letter last week from Mr Lyell, in which he asks me to tell you, that by some misunderstanding he did not know you wanted Mr Whewell’s History of the Induct: Sc:2 & that he consequently sent it up to Scotland. He begs me to send my copy on to you, in place of his.
Your’s most truly | Chas. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lyell, Katharine Murray, ed. 1881. Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Whewell, William. 1837. History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present times. 3 vols. London.
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-358
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Babbage
- Sent from
- London, Gt Marlborough St, 36
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 358,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-358.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
