To G. H. Darwin 13 July [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jy 13th
My dear George
One line to say how I, & indeed all of us, rejoice that Adams thinks well of your work, & that if all goes well will present your papers to Royal Soc.—2 I know that I shall feel quite proud— I do hope & fully believe that in a few days you will be up to work again.— Dr. Clark was very nice, when here, & enquired much about you.— He gave William the very devil of an examination, & made him perform wonderful gymnastics so as to prove his brain sound.—3 He & Bessy start in a few minutes for Tunbridge Wells, there to stay till Saturday.4 Jemmy goes on Monday to lecture on his Dynam: at Birmingham.5
Frank is getting on very well with Dipsacus, & has now made experiments which convince me that the matter which comes out of the glands is real live protoplasm, about which I was beginning to feel horrid doubts.—6
Oh Lord what a set of sons I have, all doing wonders.
Ever your affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, George Howard. 1877. On a suggested explanation of the obliquity of planets to their orbits. Philosophical Magazine 5th ser. 3: 188–92.
Darwin, Horace. 1876. [Description of a dead-weight rotary dynamometer.] Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings (1876): 231–4.
Summary
All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.
Gives news of his other sons.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10561
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 56
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10561,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10561.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24