From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:
"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project