To Ernst Haeckel 15 January [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 15th
My dear Häckel
I have been astonished by just receiving your beautiful book on corals.2 I thought you were going to publish a mere pamphlet on some new species. The drawings are the most wonderful things I ever saw in my whole life. Those of the corals excel photographs in clearness, & it like having the specimens themselves well cleaned on the table. What an artist you are! I thank you heartily for this valuable present. In the course of a few days I will begin & read the text.
You are a most wonderful man for work.
Yours most sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks EH for Arabische Korallen [1876].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10358
- 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/ 36 [9889])
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10358,” accessed on 28 May 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10358.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
