To G. H. Darwin 28 July [1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 28th
My dear George
It is rather perplexing, but the probability is that no one will apply to you.— I think you cannot refuse & you might in writing to Wrigley express your sense of his kindness & he certainly brought you on well.—2 If any one shd. apply to you as referee, you might say that you had always heard that W. had been very successful with military pupils.— If any question were asked about discipline of school, you might justly refuse to answer on grounds that you had left it some 15 years ago.—
You cd. speak of his personal kindness to you, & that you had profited by being at Clapham.— In fact your answer wd. deceive no one because it wd. give no information.—
Very many thanks about trypsin. (N.B. I have just looked, & the Frenchman spells it thrypsine)3
I beg you to thank Mr Lea what he proposes to send will do perfectly.—4
Your affect. Father | C. Darwin
We are very sorry to hear about Horace.—5
I hope that you will join the Thomsons6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Kühne, Wilhelm Friedrich. 1876. Ueber das Trypsin (Enzym des Pankreas). Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-medicinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg n.s. 1 (1877): 194–8.
Summary
Advises GHD on what to write if he is asked for a reference for Alfred Wrigley.
Thanks GHD for information about trypsin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12669
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 95
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12669,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12669.xml