To J. M. Herbert 30 January [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Jan 30
My dear old Friend
Many thanks for your very kind congratulations. Our son’s success has given us very great pleasure, & no small part of it has been derived from the sympathy of our friends.2 Talking & thinking so much of wranglers has recalled to my mind so vividly the old time when we gloried in Whitley being Senior Wrangler & you being I think 7 th .3 I never see that old Microscope which to my amazement I received anonymously without thinking with pleasure of our old friendship.4
Pray give our united very kind regards to Mrs Herbert5 & believe me yours ever | very sincerely | Charles Darwin
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–.
Summary
Thanks JMH for his congratulations.
Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5815
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Maurice Herbert
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5815,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5815.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
