To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]1
Down | Beckenham | Kent S.E.
June 5—
My dear Wallace
As imitation & protection are yr subjects I have thought that you wd like to possess the enclosed curious drawing. The note tells all I know about it.2
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S | I read not long ago a German article on the colour of female birds, & the author leaned rather strongly to your side about nidification.3 I forget who the author was, but he seemed to know a good deal.— | C.D
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1868. A theory of birds’ nests: shewing the relation of certain sexual differences of colour in birds to their mode of nidification. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1 (1868–9): 73–89.
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7218
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7218,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7218.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
