To Gaston de Saporta 19 January 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan 19th. 1879.—
My dear Sir
I am particularly glad to possess your photograph, as I was wishing a few weeks ago to add it to my collection.— I have the pleasure to enclose my own.—1
I am very glad to hear that your work is popular in France. From being pressed by other work, I have not yet had time to read it.—2
With much respect | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Saporta, Gaston de. 1879. Le monde des plantes avant l’apparition de l’homme. Paris: G. Masson.
Summary
Thanks GdeS for his photograph; sends his own. Glad to hear GdeS’s work [Le monde des plantes (1879)] is popular in France.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11835
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11835,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11835.xml
