To Emil Holub 23 January 1882
Down, Beckenham, | Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan 23d 1882—
Dear Sir
I received a few days ago your very kind card & this morning the handsome present of the 2d. Edit of your fine book of Travels. I thank you sincerely for this gift, & shall be extremely glad to add this work to my Library, though I read it with much interest, shortly after the 1st Edit: appeared.—1 Permit me, as an old man, to tell you how heartily I admired your noble zeal for Science, which led you several times under such difficulties to expose yourself to much hardship & danger for the sake of adding to our knowledge of nature.2
Believe me that you have my true good wishes for your future success & happiness, & I remain, Dear Sir, | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Holub, Emil. 1881a. Seven years in South Africa: travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi (1872–79). Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. 2 vols. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Holub, Emil. 1881b. Seven years in South Africa: travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi (1872–79). Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Summary
Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13641
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Emil Holub
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Národní Muzeum, Prague
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13641,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13641.xml
