From F. P. Cobbe [26 November 1872]1
26. Hereford Sq | S.W
Dear Mr. Darwin
I cannot say how much I am gratified by your kind gift of your book.2 I had been trying in vain to purchase it—no copy being in the market—& I need not say how very much more valuable it is as coming from you— Miss Lloyd3 & I are deep in it already— She is meanly rejoicing that I am going out to dinner that she may read it all the evening!—
Hoping that your health is pretty good & that we may have the pleasure of catching a glimpse of you in Queen Anne St4 ere very long, Believe me dear Mr Darwin heartily yr. obliged | Frances Power Cobbe
Murray of course sends you the Quarterly— I shd. be very curious to know if you thought I had done anything towards explaining the “Consciousness of Dogs”—?5 I have just written another set of (rather childish!) doggie stories for the Cornhill— They have only the merit of strictly veracious biographies6
Tuesday night
Footnotes
Summary
Acknowledges presentation copy [of Expression], which is not to be found in the market.
Interested in CD’s opinion of her article ["The consciousness of dogs", Q. Rev. 133 (1872): 419–51].
Hopes she may see CD at Queen Anne St [home of E. A. Darwin].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8649
- From
- Frances Power Cobbe
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Hereford Square, 26
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 188
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8649,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8649.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
