From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
21 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.425)
Summary:
Sends Expression.
Remarks on student days and old friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends Expression.
Remarks on student days and old friends.
Thanks for copy of Expression.
Recalls student days at Cambridge and microscope JMH gave him.
Discusses his children, health, and work.
News of JMH’s second marriage.
Death of Charles Whitley’s wife.
Thinks CD’s fame in Europe is greater than that of Cuvier.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.