From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [7 April 1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Friday
My dear Miss Cobbe
Many thanks for sending us the Theolog. Rev. which we found on our return home—2 Mr Darwin is reading the Rev. with the greatest interest & attention & feels so much the kind way you speak of him & the praise you give him that it will make him bear your severity, when he reaches that part of the review—3
yours very sincerely | Emma Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1871. Darwinism in morals. Theological Review 8: 167–92.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7666F
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- Frances Power Cobbe
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The Huntington Library (CB 388)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7666F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7666F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19