To E. W. V. Harcourt 23 August [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Augt 23d.
My dear Sir
I have received Brehm all safe & am very much obliged for it, & will return it in 2 or 3 weeks time;2 I would not have kept it so long, but I am going out for a week.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 19 August [1856].
CD had asked to borrow Brehm 1831 in his letter to E. W. V. Harcourt, 19 August [1856].
Bibliography
Brehm, Christian Ludwig. 1831. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands. Ilmenau: Bernh. Friedr. Voigt.
Summary
Has received [C. L.?] Brehm’s work [unspecified]. Will return it in two or three weeks.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4598
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward William Vernon Harcourt
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4598,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4598.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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