To J. W. Spengel 27 November [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 27th
My dear Sir
I thank you most sincerely for your kindness in having sent me your Fortschritte &c, which it will be extremely useful & interesting to me to read.2 I have begun to read it, & am astonished how thoroughily you have searched all sources of information.— I am so poor a German scholar that alas! it will take me some time to finish.
With very best thanks, I remain Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Spengel, Johann Wilhelm. 1874. Die Fortschritte des Darwinismus. Cologne and Leipzig: Eduard Heinrich Mayer.
Summary
Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8650F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Johann Wilhelm Spengel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB) (Mscr. Dresd. s 762)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8650F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8650F.xml