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From Charles Ottley Groom Napier   January 1870

20 Maryland Road | Paddington | W.

Janry 1870

To Ch. Darwin Esqre F.R.S.

My dear Sir

By desire of the late Lord Brougham1 I send you a copy of my new work The Book of Nature and the Book of Man, will you accept it in remembrance of his Lordship who had a very high opinion of the author of “Natural Selection” to which he was latterly a convert.2

I regret much the delay in forwarding the book which is only just published   I should have liked to have sent it in the lifetime of Lord Brougham. Let it now be an olive leaf snatched from his tomb

I remain yours most respectfully | C O Groom Napier

1
Henry Peter Brougham died in 1868. Groom Napier was later exposed as an imposter; it is doubtful whether he knew Brougham, or whether Brougham wrote the preface to Groom Napier 1870, as Groom Napier claimed.
2
There is no copy of Groom Napier 1870 in the Darwin Libraries at CUL or Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7068,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7068