From Albert Günther [c. 9 April 1870]1
has finished now all your woodcuts, so that you may expect them from the woodcutter in a very short time.2
The object in my writing today is a request from Prof. Kölliker3 of Würzburg who at present is in London for a fortnight, & anxious to pay you his respects. As his time is very much taken up by an examination of corals in the Museum, I advised him to ask you whether you would see him on Good-Friday, a day on which the Museum is closed.4 Thus, if you should be disengaged on that day, & if you & Mrs Darwin are inclined to receive visitors, Kölliker & myself would come by one of the morning-trains, walk from the station over to Down, & after a few hours stay return to London in the afternoon.
Kölliker stays with Sharpey5 at present, but has promised to shift his quarters to my house during Easter.
I hope you, Mrs Darwin & all your family are quite well, & remain | Yours very sincerely | A Günther
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
CD should soon receive woodcuts.
R. A. v. Kölliker would much like to visit CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7144
- From
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 242b
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7144,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7144.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18