From G. W. Child 7 May [1868]1
Oxford
May 7
My dear Sir
I return you many thanks for your two kind letters— I shall have no hesitation in using your testimonial I feel that my Essays having obtained your favourable opinion is a real honour & am confident that it will be so considered by all scientific persons—2
Unless the physicians have quite lost their ancient reputation they ought not to be troubled by any considerations about “unorthodoxy” nor do I suppose they will unless indeed it comes before them in the shape of a proclivity to homeopathy—3
You must excuse my assuring you that I should no more think of printing half your testimonial and omitting the rest than I should of perpetrating any other piece of dishonesty—
I am | very truly yours | Gilbert. W. Child
C. Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Historical register of the University of Oxford: The historical register of the University of Oxford: being a supplement to the Oxford University calendar with an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity term, 1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1900.
Summary
Thanks CD for testimonial.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6166
- From
- Gilbert William Child
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 144
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6166,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6166.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16