From Michael Foster 20 September 1871
Huntingdon
Sep. 20. 1871.
My dear Sir.
I have just got back from a little trip on the continent and found your letter forwarded to me here from Cambridge. I have no doubt that when I go back to Trinity in a day or two I shall find the curari all right1 It has been a great pleasure to me to have given you any help—even towards a negative result (for negative results are wholesome though bitter) and I do hope that if ever you want anything that lies in my way you will let me know at once.2
Anything that you want doing, I should be only too happy either to do myself or to get one of my students to do. I mean to have a good hard try to get physiology thoroughly established at Cambridge.3 I am afraid you will think it rather shabby to have threatened to come over to Down and yet never to have come.4 I found my time so much more occupied than I expected and could not get a free day. Perhaps some day I may have the pleasure of seeing you—but meanwhile please do not forget that you have only to whisper a wish to Trinity and it will be heard.
Believe me | Ever yours | M. Foster
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7957
- From
- Michael Foster
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Huntingdon
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 164
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7957,” accessed on 13 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7957.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19