To ? [1860–82?]1
Charles Darwin
My health keeps much as it was; I never escape for a whole day without much discomfort, & of course as I grow older I become much weaker.—
Footnotes
The date is conjectured from the language used in the letter; CD described himself as suffering ‘much discomfort’ daily in letters in the 1860s and 1870s (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866], and Correspondence vol. 26, letter to J. W. Judd, 27 June 1878).
Summary
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13876
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13876,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13876.xml
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