To Jules Rouquette [after 2 April 1880]1
[Rouquette reports receiving a letter wishing him ‘toute sorte de succès dans mes études et futures recherches’ (every kind of success in my studies and future researches).]2
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Jules Rouquette, 2 April 1880 (Correspondence vol. 28); see n. 2, below.
The letter from CD has not been found; it was sent in response to the poem Rouquette sent to CD in 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Jules Rouquette, 2 April 1880). The text appears in a dedication in Rouquette’s pamphlet ‘Ou allons-nous?’ (Rouquette 1881, p. 2); a copy inscribed by the author is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Rouquette, Jules. 1881. Où allons-nous? Le vent est au positivisme, à l’expérimentalisme. Le tempérament fait l’homme. Montpellier: Typographie Groller et fils.
Summary
Quote from letter to Rouquette in dedication of an essay to CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13103A
- From
- Jules (Saint Geniez) Rouquette
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Montpellier
- Source of text
- DAR pamphlet R339: 2
- Physical description
- (French)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13103A,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13103A.xml
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