To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 6th
My dear Sir
I have read your little essay with the greatest interest, & I thank you cordially for having taken such extraordinary trouble to oblige me.2
It tells me exactly what I especially wanted to know, & what I cd not find out in any of the books which I possessed, namely, how far our knowledge at present extended, & where we were ignorant. I have not at present any thing more to ask, but yr kindness makes me think that if I have strong reason, you will allow me to trouble you once again. If you have spare time & shd feel inclined to come & sleep here on a Sunday night, I shall be delighted to see you; but I am bound to mention that I suffer from a strange state of weak health; which prevents me from talking long with any one, & I am liable to have bad days when I can hardly converse at all. I hope, in a week or two, that some of my sons will be at home, & then the house wd not be so dull for you—3
With sincere thanks believe me | yours very truly | Charles Darwin
P.S. If you are able to come please do let me know, & I will inform you of the best route.
Footnotes
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7803
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Michael Foster
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7803,” accessed on 13 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7803.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19