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To T. L. Brunton   11 October 1881

Down | Beckenham Kent

Oct 11th./81

My dear Dr. Brunton

I thank you much for so kindly sending me a whole collection of your writings— I feel altogether unworthy of them, excepting in so far as the subjects which you discuss yourself interest me, notwithstanding my ignorance1

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

I have just published a little book wh. I fear will hardly interest you, but I will send a copy by this post—2

Footnotes

There is an article written by Brunton and a colleague, Joseph Fayrer, in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (Brunton and Fayrer 1873–4), but CD had received it in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from Joseph Fayrer, 25 June 1874). No other work by Brunton has been found in the Darwin Libraries at CUL or Down.
CD sent a copy of Earthworms, which was published on 10 October 1881 (Freeman 1977).

Bibliography

Brunton, Thomas Lauder and Fayrer, Joseph. 1873–4. On the nature and physiological action of the poison of Naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes. [Read 19 June 1873 and 22 January 1874.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 21 (1872–3): 358–74; 22 (1873–4): 68–133.

Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.

Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.

Summary

Thanks TLB for the collection of his writings.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13391
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 143: 170
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13391,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13391.xml

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