To James Croll 4 December [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec 4
My dear Sir
As you may be anxious about the book I write to say that I have received it, the M.S. & your note.2 I thank you warmly for the trouble which you have taken.
I will soon read the M.S. & as you do not object, will perhaps keep the book till Christmas, as my second son3 who is a mathematician & who was extremely interested by your last papers, & who wished to read the others, will then be at home.
Pray believe me | yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from James Croll, 2 December 1868.
See letter from James Croll, 2 December 1868 and n. 2.
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of book and manuscript.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6491
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Croll
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6491,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6491.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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