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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Albert Wigand   31 March 1874

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Mar 31 1874

Dear Sir

I have the pleasure to inform you that I have just received from the post office the work which you have been so kind as to send me & which was lost—1

Dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The book was the first volume of Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the natural researches of Newton and Cuvier; Wigand 1874–7). See Correspondence vol. 22, letter to Albert Wigand, 17 March 1874.

Bibliography

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

Wigand, Albert. 1874–7. Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers. Beiträge zur Methodik der Naturforschung und zur Speciesfrage. 3 vols. Brunswick: F. Vieweg und Sohn.

Summary

Confirms receipt of a book that had been lost by the Post Office (Vol. 1 Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the natural researches of Newton and Cuvier; Wigand 1874–7).

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9381F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Julius Wilhelm Albert (Albert) Wigand
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Christie’s, London (dealers) (12 July 2017)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9381F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9381F.xml

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