DARWIN (CHARLES)


Letter written on Darwin's behalf by his son and assistant Frank, signed ("F. Darwin"), to his cousin Clarke Hawkshaw ("My dear Clark"), assuring him that his father has read his notes on the limpet and declares that "the case is quite new to him & very interesting" ("...He has a dim notion of having read accounts of their making pits to sit in -- & he thinks there are specimens among the Cretaceous fossils at the Palaeontolog. Soc which might be worth looking at. He thinks your paper quite worth publishing somewhere..."); and going on to offer his own observations and those of a friend near Stevenage ("...a man name Pryor. Though not known to fame he is an admirable naturalist especially in such things as your limpet..."), 6 pages, 8vo, "Down Beckenham", [c.1871]
|For Darwin's letter to another son, George, regarding Hawkshaw's essay, and the essay itself, see the sale in these rooms, 20 June 2018, lot 137. M.R. Pryor was a Cambridge contemporary of Frank's.