To T. C. Eyton 25 August [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Aug. 25
Dear Eyton
I was very glad to see your hand-writing again, & I thank you sincerely for your intended present of your Osteology.2 How nobly & perseveringly you have stuck to your arduous task!
I had heard of your skeleton of Opisthocomus.—3 I am sorry to hear about your eyes. I shd. have very much liked to have been at Norwich; but my weak health rendered it impossible.4 Oh for those good old days when I hunted with your Harriers & fished at Eyton: those were happy times for me.5
With many thanks & all good wishes Believe me Dear Eyton | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Eyton, Thomas Campbell. 1867–75. Osteologia avium; or, a sketch of the osteology of birds. 1 vol. and 2 supplements. Wellington, Salop.: R. Hobson.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Thanks TCE for copy of his book [Osteologia avium (1867)].
Recalls visits to Eyton.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6331
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.353)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6331,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
