To W. B. Dawkins 19 July [1869]1
Caerdeon, Barmouth, North Wales
19 July
[… admitting that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail, giving an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate2 and his promise to Miss Lloyd3 to obtain from Dawkins the English names of the principal bones, with postscript and emendation in text in another hand outlining details to journey to Rhagatt.]
Footnotes
Bibliography
County families: The county families of the United Kingdom; or, royal manual of the titled & untitled aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland. By Edward Walford. London: Robert Hardwicke; Chatto & Windus. 1860–93. Walford’s county families of the United Kingdom or royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Chatto & Windus; Spottiswoode & Co. 1894–1920.
Lucas, Peter. 2007. Charles Darwin, ‘little Dawkins’ and the platycnemic Yale men: introducing a bioarchaeological tale of the descent of man. Archives of Natural History 34: 318–45.
Summary
Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6836A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Boyd Dawkins
- Sent from
- Caerdeon
- Source of text
- Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6836A,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6836A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17