To W. P. Garrison   16 October 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 16. 79

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your kind present of the beautifully illustrated volume of the Voyage of the Beagle, which I consider no small honour. I thank you also for the Memorials of Garrison, a man to be for ever revered.1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
See letter from W. P. Garrison, 4 October 1879. Garrison had sent his abridgement of Journal of researches (What Mr. Darwin saw on his voyage round the world; C. R. Darwin 1880), and had probably sent a copy of the speech given at a memorial gathering for his father, the leading anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison, by the freed slave Frederick Douglass (Douglass 1879).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12260A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12260A