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To [Friedrich Emil Suchsland]1   [after 19 January 1863]2

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Dear Sir

you have sent me, apparently by mistake Dr. Rolle’s Book, which I return by this post.— The Author has sent me copies …3

Footnotes

Suchsland was head of the publishing firm Johann Christian Hermann’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, based in Frankfurt-am-Main, which published Rolle 1863 and 1866 (see n. 3, below).
The date is established by reference to the publication date of the last two parts of Rolle 1863; the earlier instalments were published in 1862 (see n. 3, below).
Suchsland sent CD copies of two books by Friedrich Rolle (Rolle 1863 and 1866) before 16 March 1866 (see letter from Rudolf Suchsland, 16 March 1866, Calendar no. 5035). Rolle himself had sent CD a copy of Rolle 1863, but only the first part of Rolle 1866; Suchsland sent the remaining parts (see letters from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 and 28 January 1866 (Calendar no. 4986)). The publication of the parts of Rolle 1863 was announced on 8 September 1862, 27 October 1862, and 19 January 1863 (Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 29 (1862): 1862, 2258; 30 (1863): 113), and CD mentioned them in his letters to Rolle of 17 October [1862] (Correspondence vol. 10) and 30 January [1863]. There is a lightly annotated copy of Rolle 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Bibliography

Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel und für die mit ihm verwandten Geschäftszweige herausgegeben von den Deputirten des Vereins der Buchhändler zu Leipzig. Leipzig: Vereins der Buchhändler. 1834–80.

Calendar: A calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994.

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

Rolle, Friedrich. 1863. Chs. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten im Pflanzen- und Thierreich in ihrer Anwendung auf die Schöpfungsgeschichte. Frankfurt: J. C. Hermann.

Rolle, Friedrich. 1866. Der Mensch, seine Abstammung und Gesittung, im Lichte der Darwin’schen Lehre von der Art-Entstehung und auf Grundlage der neuern geologischen Entdeckungen dargestellt. Frankfurt: J. C. Hermann.

Summary

Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3772
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Friedrich Emil Suchsland
Sent from
Down
Source of text
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441)
Physical description
ALS ** 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3772,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3772.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11

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