To Francis Galton 25 January [1868?]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Jan. 25th
My dear Galton
Your few words of congratulation have given me sincere pleasure & I thank you cordially.—2 I shd. have been still better pleased, if you had told me how you were. I have enquired whenever I have had a chance of hearing, but did not hear some two months ago a very good account.3
I trust & hope by your note that you are well again, but I know that over mental work takes long in recovery.—
With hearty thanks & good wishes | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Gillham, Nicholas Wright. 2001. A life of Sir Francis Galton: from African exploration to the birth of eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Summary
FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.
Trusts that FG is well again.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5800
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Galton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5800,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5800.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
