From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1860–82?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/34)
Summary:
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.
Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."
CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.