To Charles Boner [before 8 January 1870]1
I have just received your two works, and have made some use of them for my present book; and I should have made more use of them had I received them earlier.2 You describe the grand scenery of the Tyrol most graphically, and it makes me long to be strong and young again to ramble over the mountains. My next book will not be ready for a considerable time, though part is finished.3
I am very much obliged to you for your very interesting letter, and especially glad to hear about the co-existence of varieties in the wild state.4 The fact relating to the variation of the wild boar is quite new to me.5 I hope I shall get your book soon,6 and with my best thanks, I remain, dear sir, &c., | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Boner, Charles. 1860. Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria and the Tyrol. New edition. London: Chapman and Hall.
Boner, Charles. 1861. Forest creatures. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.
Boner, Charles. 1865. Transylvania: its products and its people. London: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Kettle, Rosa Mackenzie ed. 1871. Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner. 2 vols. London: R. Bentley.
Summary
Has received [read?] CB’s two works [Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria (2d ed., 1860) and Forest creatures (1871)] and has made use of them in his present book [Descent].
CB’s descriptions of the Tyrol make CD long to be "strong and young again to ramble over the mountains".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7073
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Boner
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kettle ed. 1871, p. 77
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7073,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7073.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18