To Louis Agassiz 12 April 1864
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Ap. 12. 1864
My dear Sir
Owing to long continued illness & absence from London, I received only a few days ago the copy of your “Methods of Study” with some other publications,1 & your kind note of introduction to Mr Lesly.2
I thank you sincerely for the above present.
I know well how strongly you are opposed to nearly everything I have written & it gratifies me deeply that you have not for this cause taken, like a few of my former English friends, a personal dislike to me.3
With my cordial thanks & sincere respect | I remain my dear Sir | yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Agassiz, Louis. 1860. On the origin of species. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 30: 142–54. [Reprinted in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 6 (1860): 219–32.]
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks LA for Methods of study [1863].
Is gratified that he has not taken a personal dislike to CD, though he is strongly opposed to nearly everything CD has written.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4460
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 277)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4460,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4460.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12