To Carl du Prel 19 May 1874
Down. | Beckenham Kent.
May 19. 1874.
My dear Sir
I thank you for your extremely kind & courteous letter. & for the present of your work, It is quite a new light to me. & a very interesting fact, that anyone should endeavour to extend a law analogous to that of the struggle for existence to the inorganic world—1
As soon as I have finished a book in hand2 I shall read your essay with much curiosity—
With the most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me. | I remain. | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Thanks him for copy of book [Der Kampf um’s Dasein am Himmel (1874)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9462
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carl Ludwig August Friedrich Maximilian Alfred (Carl) Du Prel, baron
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 5
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9462,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9462.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
