From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.
Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.
Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project