To H. B. Tristram 8 September 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sep 8 1868.
My dear Sir
Many thanks for you⟨r⟩ answers to my questions, whi⟨ch⟩ are quite sufficient for me & distinct. I am very much obliged for your kind offer of lending me the specimens but I think this wd be superfluous, & I shd be sorr⟨y⟩ that they should run an⟨y⟩ risk.1
Believe me | Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
See Correspondence vol. 16, letter from H. B. Tristram, 5 September 1868. CD’s questions, which were evidently about sexual difference in desert birds, have not been found. Tristram had offered CD specimens of birds.
Summary
Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6356F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Baker Tristram
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
- Physical description
- LS 1p photocopy
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6356F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6356F.xml
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