To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec 20 1868
My dear Häckel
I write a line merely to thank you for yr letter of Dec 12, which by some accident I received only 2 days ago.1
I am very sincerely sorry, for yr sake & for the sake of science at the sudden death of yr distinguished Schleicher.2 From all that I have heard he will be an irreparable loss to philology; & I am personally all the more grieved as he so well supported the views which we both maintain.
Believe me my dear Häckel | your sincere friend | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
Summary
Concerning death of August Schleicher.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6509
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/21)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6509,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6509.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16