To Hyde Clarke   [29 December 1877]¹

Summary

"If you finally succeed in proving that all languages have been developed from a common root, you will indeed have effected a most valuable piece of work."

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-11295

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Henry Hyde (Hyde) Clarke

Date

[29 Dec 1877]

Sent from

Down

Source of text

Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 February 1959)

Physical description

1p

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 25.