From Hermann Kindt 20 September 1864
Yarm, Yorkshire
20. Sept. 1864.
Esteemed Sir,
Allow me to express again my warmest thanks for your so kindly granting my friend’s request.1 Your autograph lines will give a peculiar and interesting value to the volume, for which they are destined; and, if possible, increase the obligations, under which you have placed—at least mentally—my friend, who, like all thinking and intellectual countrymen of mine, has warmly greeted the new era of thoughts and views, which sprang from your admirable works. I am sorry, that I cannot adequately express to you the warm feelings, with which young people especially cherish your name, although it cannot be of any moment to you, what and how an obscure individual thinks of your works and their intellectual influence: but I beg you will at least believe me to be, esteemed Sir, | your’s ever obliged | Hermann Kindt
Charles Darwin Esq. | M.A., F.R.S., etc.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 2d ed.: 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. 1860.
Summary
Thanks for autograph.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4619
- From
- Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Yarm
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 13
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4619,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4619.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12