To Ernst Haeckel 14 May 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 14. 76
My dear Häckel
I have just received your letter, which like so many others from you, is full of kindness towards me.1 The book about the Canary Islands has reached me safely, but I had quite forgotten its existence.2 With respect to Pangenesis, I am sorry that you dissent so strongly from it, as it has lately risen in my estimation; but you are thoroughly right to explain in the clearest & strongest terms, your dissent.3 I shall read your Essay on Perigenesis with very great interest, but I shall not do so just at present, as it will be hard work, and I have not been lately very well, so that I shall soon leave home for some complete rest.4
Believe me | my dear Häckel | Your sincere friend | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Book [Webb and Berthelot] has reached CD.
Sorry EH dissents from Pangenesis.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10506
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 38 [9891])
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10506,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10506.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24