To Maxwell Tylden Masters 21 March [1868]1
Down Bromley Kent [4 Chester Place]
March 21st
My dear Sir
As gardeners have much to do with worms, I think that you will find the enclosed little communication, written by my niece, worth insertion in Gard. Chronicle. I can vouch for her remarkable accuracy.—2
Let me take this opportunity of thanking you most sincerely for a very kind review (written I suspect by yourself) of my Book, but I fear too favourable.3 I shd. be content if I thought it deserved half so much praise; & I am sure that what was said in Gard. Chronicle was enough by itself almost to sell the edition4
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Sends his niece’s [Lucy Wedgwood] observations on worms, vouches for her accuracy, and suggests the piece be inserted in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see "Worms", Gard. Chron. (1868): 324].
Adds his thanks for a "very kind review" of his book [Variation, Gard. Chron. (1868): 124].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6032
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6032,” accessed on 19 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6032.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16