To ? 28 April [1863?]1
[Down]
[referring to an exchange of photographs with Professor Edouard Claparède, the Swiss naturalist, ‘for whom I feel the highest respect’.]
Footnotes
According to the catalogue description, the letter is dated 28 April. The year is conjectured by the relationship between this letter and an exchange of letters between CD and Claparède in 1862; the only extant letters between them are the letter to Edouard Claparède, [c. 16 April 1862], and the letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 (Correspondence vol. 10).
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13866
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13866,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13866.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
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