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To Giovanni Canestrini   26 August [1877]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

August 26

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for having so kindly sent me your new work. I regret even more than I have ever done before that I cannot read Italian, so that I can get only parts translated to me.— The title of your work is a very great honour to me.2

Believe me dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the publication date of Canestrini’s book (see n. 2, below).
2
Canestrini had sent a copy of his book La teoria dell’evoluzione, esposta nei suoi fondamenti, come introduzione alla lettura delle opere del Darwin e de’ suoi seguaci (The theory of evolution, explained in its fundamentals, as an introduction to the reading of the works of Darwin and his followers; Canestrini 1877). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Bibliography

Canestrini, Giovanni. 1877. La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta ne’ suoi fondamenti come introduzione alla lettura delle opere del Darwin e de’ suoi seguaci. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice.

Summary

Thanks GC for his new work [La teoria dell’evoluzione esposta (1877)]. CD regrets he cannot read Italian.

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11113,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11113.xml

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