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Darwin Correspondence Project

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

The year is established by the reference to Spengel 1874 (see n. 2, below).
There is a copy of Spengel’s Die Fortschritte des Darwinismus (Advances in Darwinism; Spengel 1874) in the Darwin Library–CUL. See also Correspondence vol. 19, letters from J. W. Spengel, 10 May 1871 and 4 November 1871.

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

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