To Henry Edwards 1 March [1876]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
March 1st —
My dear Sir
I did receive the Photograph, which you so kindly sent me & have often admired it. Also your interesting paper.1 It was a mere oversight that I did not specially thank you for them.2 But in truth I am so overwhelmed with letters on many days that I am often forced to be very brief in my answers, & I may appear ungrateful when this is not my frame of mind.
with my apologies & renewed thanks, I remain | My dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. I have lately read your interesting discussion on Prof Weismann’s reviews on Dimorphism in butterflies, & was particularly glad to see that you approve of the essay, which struck me much.—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Edwards, Henry. 1875. Darlingtonia californica. [Read 6 September 1875.] Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 6: 161–6.
Edwards, William Henry. 1875. An abstract of Dr. Aug. Weismann’s paper on ‘The seasonal-dimorphism of butterflies’. To which is appended a statement of some experiments made upon Papilio ajax. Canadian Entomologist 7: 228–40.
Summary
Comments on paper by HE [see 10328].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10411
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Edwards
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.486)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10411,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10411.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
