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To John Fiske   17 August [1879]1

Waterhead Hotel | Coniston, Ambleside

Aug. 17th.

Dear Mr Fiske

I fear that you will think me very troublesome, but I cannot rest easy without thanking you for the pleasure which your Essays have given me.— I think those on Wright, on a Librarian’s duty & the supplement on Buckle interested me most.2

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Fiske, 5 August [1879].
2
Fiske had sent CD his Darwinism, and other essays (Fiske 1879); see letter to John Fiske, 5 August [1879]. Chapters 6 and 12 were titled ‘Chauncey Wright’ and ‘A librarian’s work’. Chapter 10 (‘Postscript to Mr. Buckle’) was a supplement to chapter 9 (‘Mr. Buckle’s fallacies’); they critiqued the work of Henry Thomas Buckle on European civilisation.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Ambleside] before del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12196,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12196