To Hugo de Vries [December 1881?]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
My dear Sir
Very many thanks for your clear & full letter, which has been a great relief to my mind, for I feared that I might have blundered in some incomprehensible manner.2
Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The date is conjectured from a note in an unknown hand.
The letter has not been found, but see the letter from Hugo de Vries, 15 October 1881. In that letter, De Vries mentioned that he was going to repeat some of CD’s observations on worms. The missing letter may have discussed these observations.
Summary
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13523F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugo de Vries
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Artis Library (De Vries 10)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13523F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13523F.xml
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