From [J. M. Herbert]1 [early May 1831]2
If Mr. Darwin will accept the accompanying Coddington’s Microscope,3 it will give peculiar gratification to one who has long doubted whether Mr. Darwin’s talents or his sincerity be the more worthy of admiration, and who hopes that the instrument may in some measure facilitate those researches which he has hitherto so fondly and so successfully prosecuted.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Coddington, Henry. 1830. On the improvement of the microscope. [Read 22 March 1830.] Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 3: 421–8.
Summary
Asks CD to accept a Coddington microscope, which accompanies his anonymous note.
Compliments CD on talent and sincerity.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-99
- From
- John Maurice Herbert
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 204: 35
- Physical description
- AL 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 99,” accessed on 14 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-99.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 1