From F. W. Farrar 21 February [1871]1
The Lodge, | Marlborough College
Feb. 21
My dear Sir,
I feel it a very great honour to have received from you a copy of your new work on “The Descent of Man”.2 I shall read it with the deepest interest. The severe exigencies of my daily work leave me no leisure for my thoughts or studies beyond those that affect my immediate duties, but they have not lessened the deep admiration wh I have always felt for your writings, or the honour with wh I have regarded your name.
I have recently been elected Master of Marlborough College. I have not forgotten an anecdote wh. you once gave me about the manner in wh. Science was treated at Shrewsbury in old days.3 I send you the last report of the Nat. Hist. society established among the boys here, to shew you that we do all we can to encourage a taste for observation & for Natural History here. It is my very strong desire to do more for education in science as opportunity offers.4
I am, dear Sir, with many thanks & with the sincerest respect,
Very truly yours | F W Farrar
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.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7504
- From
- Frederic William Farrar
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Marlborough College
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 39
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7504,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7504.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19