From Louis Agassiz 6 July 1869
Museum of Comparative Zoology, | at Harvard College, | Cambridge, Mass.,
7th. 6th. 1869
My dear Sir,
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you my only son Alexander Ag⟨as⟩siz,1 the more so as I beleive you will find him more tractable than myself upon questions which you are especially interested about.2
Ever truly yours | Ls Agassiz
Ch. Darwin Esqr.
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Winsor, Mary Pickard. 1991. Reading the shape of nature. Comparative zoology at the Agassiz museum. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6817
- From
- Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
- Source of text
- DAR 159: 10
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6817,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6817.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17