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Darwin Correspondence Project

To E. L. Jellinek   [after 30 July 1881]1

Dear Sir

I regret to say that your question relates to a subject much too difficult & doubtful for me to attempt any answer in the compass of a note.2

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from E. L. Jellinek, 30 July 1881.
Jellinek had asked whether CD believed in the immortality of the soul (see letter from E. L. Jellinek, 30 July 1881).

Summary

Regrets he cannot answer ELJ’s question in a note.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13264
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Edward Lincoln Jellinek
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
DAR 202: 104v
Physical description
ADraft 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13264,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13264.xml

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