Ɛpsilon

From Henry Holland   19 February [1871]1

72 Brook Street

Feby. 19th

One line, my dear Charles, to thank you for those two volumes, which (impatiently expected) came to me yesterday.2 I shall speedily set to work upon them; sedulously as well as speedily, & when I have mastered their contents, will write again with more ample acknowledgment than this brief note of thanks on first reception of the work.3

Ever yours, my dear Charles, | affecy | H Holland

P.S You will see in the last No of the Edn Review, an Article on Laugel’s volumes, which I wrote on the voyage to & from Jamaica.—4 There are some parts of it, which bear closely on your subject, though of course only in a general way, under the cramped space of a Review

1
The year is established by the reference to Holland’s article in the Edinburgh Review (see n. 4, below).
2
Holland’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Descent (Appendix IV).
3
Holland informed CD that he had finished reading Descent in his letter of 6 November [1872] (Correspondence vol. 20).
4
Holland refers to Auguste Laugel and to Laugel 1863, 1864, and 1867 (Science et philosophie, Les problèmes de la nature, and Les problèmes de la vie), which he reviewed in the Edinburgh Review ([Holland] 1871). Holland had visited Jamaica and the West Indies in the autumn of 1870 (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Henry Holland, 4 November [1870]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7490,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7490