To Ernst Krause 12 February 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Feb. 12. 1879
Dear Sir
I must write a line to thank you for your extremely kind letter.1 The Editors of Kosmos have done me a quite unprecedented honour by the publication of the last number,—much of which, I can see, will interest me greatly.2
With cordial thanks | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Krause was an editor of Kosmos; the February 1879 issue contained essays on CD’s life and work to mark his 70th birthday, and also featured an essay on Erasmus Darwin by Krause (Krause 1879a).
Bibliography
Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus Darwin, der Großvater und Vorkämpfer Charles Darwin’s: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie. Kosmos 4 (1878–9): 397–424.
Summary
Thanks for honour of latest number of Kosmos.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11871
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library (John Robert Crouse autograph collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11871,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11871.xml
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