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Darwin Correspondence Project

To W. P. Garrison   16 October 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 16. 79

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your kind present of the beautifully illustrated volume of the Voyage of the Beagle, which I consider no small honour. I thank you also for the Memorials of Garrison, a man to be for ever revered.1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

See letter from W. P. Garrison, 4 October 1879. Garrison had sent his abridgement of Journal of researches (What Mr. Darwin saw on his voyage round the world; C. R. Darwin 1880), and had probably sent a copy of the speech given at a memorial gathering for his father, the leading anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison, by the freed slave Frederick Douglass (Douglass 1879).

Bibliography

Douglass, Frederick. 1879. Speech on the death of William Lloyd Garrison. 2 June 1879. Manuscript/mixed material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mfd.23012/.

Summary

Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]

and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12260A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Private collection
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12260A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12260A.xml

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