To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9477.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9477,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9477

Summary

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-9477
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date: 31 May [1874]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442)
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.