To William Bowman 27 November [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 27th
My dear Bowman
Very many thanks for your note.2 As the disease is not very rare, & as it is known to be hereditary, I will not give the case, (about which I was very doubtful) & am glad to decide in the negative. My informant has a name which could fill up one of these lines by its length, & which was the reason I did not copy it letter by letter.3
Your’s most sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
"As the disease hypermetropia is not very rare, & as it is known to be hereditary, I will not give the case (about which I was very doubtful) & am glad to decide in the negative".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9162
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bowman, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 3
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9162,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9162.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
