To G. R. Waterhouse [November 1843]
Down, near Bromley | Kent
Thursday
My dear Waterhouse
I am indeed delighted at your news & most heartily congratulate you on your appointment having come so quickly & so satisfactorily—1
I can only look at it as a step to future promotion; & may my prediction come true. Poor as the place at present is, after what you have gone through at the Zoological Society, the certainty of it must be a great comfort— I should think Kœnig2 was an odd fish, but I fancy from all I have heard, that he is a well meaning man.—
I suppose you will begin working like a Trojan at fossil Osteology—
With our united congratulations & kind wishes to Mrs. Waterhouse | believe me | Most truly Your’s | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Summary
Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-710
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Robert Waterhouse
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 710,” accessed on 27 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-710.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
