To C. L. Dodgson 14 December [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec. 14th
My dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for the excellent photograph & your very kind note.2
I am now employed on another subject & do not think that I shall continue my observations on expression; but I will not forget your obliging offer, should occasion occur.—3
I am at present far from well,4 so pray excuse brevity & believe me | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to C. L. Dodgson, 10 December 1872.
For details of the photograph, see the letter to C. L. Dodgson, 10 December 1872, n. 2. Dodgson’s note has not been found.
CD had begun work on insectivorous plants, and on Drosera in particular, on 23 August 1872 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that on 15 December 1872 CD was ill in bed.
Summary
His thanks for the excellent photograph. [See 8668.]
He is no longer working on expression but appreciates the obliging offer.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8680A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- A Dodgson family member (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8680A,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8680A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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