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To Ernst Haeckel   11 January [1875]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 11

My dear Haeckel

I have received your very kind present of Hellwald.2 I had no idea that it was so large a book, otherwise I should have scrupled in accepting your kindness. With cordial thanks | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 20 December 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22).
2
In his letter of 20 December 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22), Haeckel had offered to send CD a copy of Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte in ihrer natürlichen Entwickelung bis zur Gegenwart (Cultural history in its natural development up to the present; Hellwald 1875). There is no copy of it in CD’s libraries at CUL or Down.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Hellwald, Friedrich von. 1875. Culturgeschichte in ihrer natürlichen Entwickelung bis zur Gegenwart. Augsburg: Lampart & Co.

Summary

Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9811
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886])
Physical description
LS(A) 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9811,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9811.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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