From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.413)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.
CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project