To F. E. Abbot 6 June [1871]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 6th.
Dear Sir
We have all been so much interested by the number of the Index, which you were so good as to send me, that I shd. be much obliged if you would send copies to me, for as long as the enclosed dollars will pay for them & postage. As far as I could guess this wd. be for about a year.2
One of my sons procured the dollars from a money changer, & I hope that they are not forgeries.—
I have now read your Lecture delivered in Boston; it seems to me most clearly & vigorously written, & is one of the most striking articles which I have read in my whole life.3
Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1871. The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion. [Read 5 February 1871.] Index 2: 113–15.
Summary
Sends subscription for the Index.
FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7804
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Ellingwood Abbot
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7804,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7804.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
