To Alexander Buchan 22 May [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 22d
Dear Sir
I am greatly indebted to you for your kindness in sending me your Text-Book of Metoreology, which I have no doubt I shall find very useful & interesting.2
With my best thanks, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the publication date of Buchan’s book (see n. 2, below).
Buchan’s Introductory text-book of meteorology (Buchan 1871) was published in June 1871 (Publishers’ Circular, 1 July 1871, p. 402); CD evidently received a pre-publication copy.
Bibliography
Buchan, Alexander. 1871. Introductory text-book of meteorology. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons.
Summary
Thanks for a copy of Alexander Buchan’s Introductory text-book of meteorology (Buchan 1871).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7765H
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alexander Buchan
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Records of Scotland (MET 1/7/1)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7765H,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7765H.xml
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