From Alfred Newton 29 January 1868
Magd: Coll: Cambridge
29 Jany. 1868.
Dear Mr. Darwin,
Pray accept my warmest thanks for your most kind and unexpected present—as well as my hearty congratulations on the completion of this work, to which I, in common with so many others, have long been looking forward—1 I have also to offer you my congratulations on the highly honourable place taken by your son in the late Mathematical Tripos—2 He is a living proof of your beautiful theory of “descent with modification The talent is inherited but applied in a different manner—
I have just glanced at your introductory chapter and am delighted to see that you promise us two more works—3
Believe me | Yrs. very truly & obliged | Alfred Newton—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cambridge University calendar: The Cambridge University calendar. Cambridge: W. Page [and others]. 1796–1950.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5810
- From
- Alfred Newton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 186: 50
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5810,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5810.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16