From Hermann Kindt 13 November 1865
Bampton, Penrith
13. Nov. 1865.
Dear Sir,
I herewith send you the facsimile reproduction of your handwriting, and beg you will be kind enough to let me know if you like the manner in wh: it has been executed.1 At the same time accept my warmest thanks for your courteous attention. I am sure that the paragraph as well as the specimen of your handwriting are a great ornament to our publication, and will be received with the greatest pleasure by your numerous friends and admirers. I can at least vouch for my own countrymen.
If you can possibly send me for the same purpose of a facsimile reproduction an interesting note or letter of your celebrated Grandfather, I shall feel greatly obliged to you.2
I beg to enclose a biographical notice intended for that purpose, which was chiefly extracted from Miss Seward’s “Life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin”.3 I copied and compiled it some time ago but cannot remember the biographical compilations I made use of for that purpose.
With renewed thanks for your kindness, believe me to remain | Your’s very faithfully | Hermann Kindt
Charles Darwin Esq. M.A., F.R.S., etc.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Seward, Anna. 1804. Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin. London: J. Johnson.
Summary
Sends facsimile reproduction of CD’s handwriting [Autographic Mirror 3 (1865) no. 262]. Requests a sample of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s hand and autograph for publication.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4935
- From
- Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Penrith
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4935,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4935.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13