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Darwin Correspondence Project

To William Preyer   28 October 1881

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Oct. 28. 1881

My dear Sir

I thank you very sincerely for your kindness in sending me your grand work “Die Seele des Kindes”. How I wish that I could read German easily, for the subject interests me much and I have no doubt that your work is excellent.1

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Preyer sent CD a copy of Die Seele des Kindes. Beobachtungen über die geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in den ersten Lebensjahren (The mind of the child. Observations on the intellectual development of man in the first years of life; Preyer 1882). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Bibliography

Preyer, William. 1882. Die Seele des Kindes. Beobachtungen über die geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in den ersten Lebensjahren. Leipzig: Th. Grieben.

Summary

Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13438
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 147: 271
Physical description
C 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13438,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13438.xml

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