From T. S. Cobbold 1 September [1869]1
Westward Ho! Hotel | North Devon
Septr. 1st
Dear Sir,
I have this morning received your note (which has tardily followed me viâ Exeter).2
I have learnt that the box of specimens was duly delivered at 84 Wimpole Street; & from the “list” I quite think I may congratulate myself upon the possession.
I hope to utilise a mass of materials (by me) this winter, in which case your kind addition will be a useful adjunct.
At present, I am here studing rock-succession & collecting fossils (in view of my Spring series of Swiney Lectures).3
I had hoped to have read a paper on the “facts of Succession” at our Exeter meeting; which as you will have heard was on the whole successful—despite certain stupid intrusions.4
I am, Dear Sir | Yours very truly | T. Spencer Cobbold
Charles Darwin Esq. F.R.S—
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Thanks CD for parasitic worms [see 6858] specimens. Supports "fact of succession".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6876
- From
- Thomas Spencer Cobbold
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Westward Ho!
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 190
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6876,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6876.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
