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From John Tyndall   5 February 1876

5th. Feby. 1876.

My dear Darwin

I wrote to you this morning when the teapot was a proposal merely. It has now come, and any thing more exquisite than it and its appurtenances I have never seen.1 Louisa2 was with me when it arrived and she could not find words to express her sense of your kindness. “What shall we say to him” I asked. “How shall we thank him?” “Say” said she simply “that the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said regarding it”.

Yours to the last | John Tyndall

1
CD had probably sent a tea set, rather than simply a teapot, from Francis Boone Thomas & Co. (see letter to John Tyndall, 4 February 1876 and n. 2).
2
Louisa Charlotte Hamilton, Tyndall’s fiancée.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10382,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10382