To F. E. Abbot 2 July 1872
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 2d. 72/
My dear Sir
I am ashamed to say that I kept no memorandum when I first subscribed for the Index.— I now send the amount, according to my sons calculation, for two years subscription & postage; so kindly make a note the date to which this extends & which will probably last out my active life.—1
I was very much interested two or three months ago by a grand Lecture which you delivered in Boston.—2
I had the great pleasure of having here to dinner a short time ago Col. Higginson: he seems in every way a man, whom one may have been proud to have received.—3
With all good wishes | In Haste, My dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1898. Cheerful yesterdays. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press.
Summary
Renews subscription to Index.
Was interested in FEA’s lecture on "The God of science" [Index 24 Feb 1872].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8401
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Ellingwood Abbot
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8401,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8401.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
