To J. F. Royle [16 April – 21 May 1847]1
Down, Farnborough, Kent
Friday
My dear Royle
The carrier set off before your note arrived yesterday, so that he will have called at your house. Of course it is out of the question your lending me at present the book2 (and very glad I am to hear of the Committee on the cotton)3 and I am greatly indebted to your kindness in promising it me at some future time. I will wait till I hear; and of course 6 or 9 months hence will do equally well for me. Your offer is a most valuable one to inform me of any other works on the breeds of animals in India and such subjects, to which I have long been attending. I believe it was in your Productions Resources4 that I first heard of the Agricult. Soc. Transactions.5 I fear it would be useless my belonging to your new Club,6 as I am so seldom able to dine out anywhere and I presume your dinners are your efficient meetings, but otherwise I should esteem it a very great honour and undoubted pleasure to be enrolled as one of so capital a list of names. All I have heard of it, makes me envious of those who have had the good fortune to be elected.
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bonney, T. G. 1919. Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society written from its minute books. London: Macmillan.
Hall, Marie Boas. 1984. All scientists now: the Royal Society in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Royle, John Forbes. 1840. Essay on the productive resources of India. London.
Summary
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1047
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Forbes Royle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 400
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1047,” accessed on 11 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1047.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4