To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]1
Down
Dec. 4th.
My dear Falconer
Many thanks for your note.2 I have read in the Reader Sabine’s address and was much pleased by his eulogium and glorified in the highest degree.3 No doubt the notice of the “Origin” was brief enough and I think it my best work; but this obscure point was hidden to me by the effulgence of the other parts! Altogether I am very much pleased. I hear from Hooker there has been some row about what Sabine exactly said.4 My head is whizzing like a steam engine, so no more, except once again believe that I shall ever feel grateful to you for all the extraordinary interest you have shown in my affairs.
Most sincerely yours | C. Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4698
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 37
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4698,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4698.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
