To Martin Beckhard 10 February [1878]1
Down. | Beckenham. Kent.
Feb 10th.
Dear Sir.
I thank you very sincerely for your most kind letter & present of the two works of Geiger.—2 I have known his name for some time, though I have never read a word of his writings— I will now thanks to your kindness, endeavour to do so before very long; but I labour under the great disadvantage of reading German with extreme slowness, & as my health is weak I am utterly unable to read one tenth of the books, published by your wonderful countrymen, which I wish to read & which I ought to read.
With sincere thanks. | Believe me | Dear Sir. | Yours faithfully— | Ch. Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Geiger, Lazarus. 1871. Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit. Vorträge. Stuttgart: Verlag der J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung.
Geiger, Lazarus. 1878. Der Ursprung der Sprache. 2d edition. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta.
Summary
Thanks him for works by Lazarus Geiger [probably Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit (1871)
and Der Ursprung der Sprache, 2d ed. (1878)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11349
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Martin Adolf (Martin) Beckhard
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 73
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11349,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11349.xml