To William Ogle 17 January 1882

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Jan. 17^th 1882

My dear Ogle

I am very much obliged to you for your gift of your Aristotle. By turning over the pages I suspect that your Introduction will interest me more than the text, notwithstanding that he was such a wonderful old fellow.—¹

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely & obliged | Charles Darwin

See letter from William Ogle, 17 January 1882. Ogle sent his translation of Aristotle’s On the parts of animals (Ogle trans. 1882).

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0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13622,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13622

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Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".

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Record number: DCP-LETT-13622
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: William Ogle
Date: 17 Jan 1882
Sent from: Down
Source of text: DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30.

To William Ogle 17 January 1882

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