To George Bentham 18 January [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 18th
My dear Mr. Bentham
I am greatly obliged to you for having sent me your Report on Systematic Botany, which I have read with great interest & admiration at your wisdom & deliberate judgment.—2 But I ought not out of common modesty to have used these latter words, considering the way in which you speak of my book; & it was to tell you with what a glow of satisfaction I read these very words, as coming from you, which make my excuse for writing at all.3
With sincere respect, I remain, my dear Mr. Bentham | Yours very truly | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks GB for his "Report on [the recent progress and present state of] systematic botany" [Rep. BAAS (1874): 27–54] and for the way in which he refers to CD’s book.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9824
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree-Dyer, (1830–1884) 719)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9824,” accessed on 28 September 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9824.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
