To Rudolf Schmid 25 September 1876
Down. | Beckenham, Kent.
Sept. 25. 1876.
Dear & Respected Sir,
I thank you for your extremely kind and courteous letter, and for the present of your Book.1 I hope to read it before long, but at present I have another German book in hand which I have promised to read, and I am a very poor scholar in your language.
I feel sure that nothing in your work will give me the least offence, however much we may differ, for the spirit of your letter proves to me that you would never intentionally misrepresent any man’s views.
With much respect and my best thanks, I remain | Your’s faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Gregory, Frederick. 1992. Nature lost? Natural science and the German theological traditions of the nineteenth century. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press.
Schmid, Rudolf. 1876. Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral. Stuttgart: Paul Moser.
Summary
Thanks for RS’s work [Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral (1876)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10616
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Rudolf Schmid
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 427
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10616,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10616.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
