From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[Dec 1881?]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 10)
Summary:
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.