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From F. P. Cobbe   [26 November 1872]1

26. Hereford Sq | S.W

Dear Mr. Darwin

I cannot say how much I am gratified by your kind gift of your book.2 I had been trying in vain to purchase it—no copy being in the market—& I need not say how very much more valuable it is as coming from you— Miss Lloyd3 & I are deep in it already— She is meanly rejoicing that I am going out to dinner that she may read it all the evening!—

Hoping that your health is pretty good & that we may have the pleasure of catching a glimpse of you in Queen Anne St4 ere very long, Believe me dear Mr Darwin heartily yr. obliged | Frances Power Cobbe

Murray of course sends you the Quarterly— I shd. be very curious to know if you thought I had done anything towards explaining the “Consciousness of Dogs”—?5 I have just written another set of (rather childish!) doggie stories for the Cornhill— They have only the merit of strictly veracious biographies6

Tuesday night

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to F. P. Cobbe, 28 November 1872. The Tuesday before 28 November 1872 was 26 November.
2
Expression.
4
Six Queen Anne Street was the address of CD’s brother, Erasmus.
5
Cobbe had written an article on the emotion and psychology of dogs for the October issue of the Quarterly Review, which was published by CD’s publisher, John Murray ([Cobbe] 1872a).
6
Cobbe’s article appeared in the December issue of the Cornhill Magazine ([Cobbe] 1872b).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8649,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8649