RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Extract and facsimile of two letters to W. A. Leighton, 1858]. In E. Woodall, Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trubner, pp. 17, 52-53.
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Freeman Bibliographical Database, enter its Identifier here.
Page 17 includes an extract of Darwin's 21 November [1858] letter to William Allport Leighton. See Correspondence vol. 7, p. 206. Between pp. 52-53 is a facsimile of Darwin's 26 November 1862 letter to Leighton. A317. See Correspondence vol. 10, p. 572.
"How many years have rolled over our heads since we were at school together, and how little we then thought that we should correspond on scientific subjects."
[facsimile of 26 November 1862 letter ]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 7 December, 2022