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To J. M. Rodwell   3 June 1877

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3 June 1877

My Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for sending me the extract from the sermon, which has amused me. It is as great an honour to be abused by an archimandrite, as according to the old story to be horsewhipped by a duke! …1

Footnotes

1
See letter from J. M. Rodwell, 1 June 1877 and n. 1. An archimandrite is a priest in the Eastern Orthodox church, ranking below a bishop and usually in charge of a large monastery or group of monasteries. The source of the expression ‘horsewhipped by a duke’ is an article by Thomas Babington Macaulay that first appeared in the Edinburgh Review ([Macaulay] 1827, p. 246). CD used the phrase in his letter to Friedrich Max Müller, 15 October [1875] (Correspondence vol. 23).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

[Macaulay, Thomas Babington.] 1827. The New Antijacobin Review.— Nos. I and II. Edinburgh Review 46: 245–67.

Summary

Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10981F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Medows Rodwell
Sent from
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Source of text
Phillips (dealers) (June 1995)
Physical description
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10981F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10981F.xml

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