From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
18 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has finished vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons]. CD praises book as "best ever published in England".
The review in the Athenæum was cold, as always, and insolent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project