To J. L. Stokes [c. 26 November 1846]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Thursday
My dear Stokes
Many thanks for your letters, I enclosed the proper one to Sir G. Grey & this will show him, that we did not intentionally mean to insult him.— It has been a vexatious affair; for what I remember of him, I like much.— I have very little doubt that your explanation is the true one, viz that my note went in your proof-sheet to the Printers.—
I return you the S. Australian letter with thanks; I was glad to see it.—
I congratulate you heartily on the great success of your Book;2 if I were in your place, I should be prouder of having been introduced to the old Duke3 (as I heard was the case) than for a hundred pistols from Joinville,4 —extraordinary as that compliment is.
Farewell my dear Stokes
Footnotes
Bibliography
Stokes, John Lort. 1846. Discoveries in Australia. 2 vols. London: T. & W. Boone.
Summary
Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.
Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1020
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Lort Stokes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1020,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1020.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 3