From Henry Holland 19 February [1871]1
72 Brook Street
Feby. 19th
One line, my dear Charles, to thank you for those two volumes, which (impatiently expected) came to me yesterday.2 I shall speedily set to work upon them; sedulously as well as speedily, & when I have mastered their contents, will write again with more ample acknowledgment than this brief note of thanks on first reception of the work.3
Ever yours, my dear Charles, | affecy | H Holland
P.S You will see in the last No of the Edn Review, an Article on Laugel’s volumes, which I wrote on the voyage to & from Jamaica.—4 There are some parts of it, which bear closely on your subject, though of course only in a general way, under the cramped space of a Review
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
[Holland, Henry.] 1871. Laugel’s Problems of nature and life. Edinburgh Review 133: 145–75.
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7490
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St, 72
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 253
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7490,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7490.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
