RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1.1839. 'My father received a letter from Mr Roberts'. CUL-DAR91.31. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared by John van Wyhe. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'.
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Jan 13th 1839
My father received a letter from Mr Roberts (a person he had known & directed many letters to) — could not remember read Christian name; Fancied it looked like W. but concluded it could not be so.— Looked at a direction book, but could not find out— Directed his letter, & I observed he had written Wilson I pointed it out; he was astonished, & said how very odd.—
-could not think what had put Wilson into his head.— remembered, that he had looked in direction book under head of Wilson, referred to Robert & found his Christian name was Wilson !! How curious an inward, unconscious memory.—
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