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To Rudolph Heine   16 March [1865]1

Down, | Bromley, | Kent. S.E.

Mar 16

Sir

I am much obliged for your letter of Mar 10th.

I am pleased to hear that you have been interested in my work on the Origin of Species. Your law of inheritance I dare say is true & may have some bearing on the modification of species; but I fear it would be difficult to prove it with sufficient clearness to allow of its use2

I beg to remain | Dear Sir | Yours respectfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
An incomplete version of this letter, dated 15 March [1865] and lacking the first sentence and the valediction, was published in Correspondence vol. 13, based on a transcription in a Stargardt sale catalogue. This transcription is from a facsimile in a Christie’s sale catalogue. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Rudolph Heine, 10 March 1865 (Correspondence vol. 13).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-4786F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Rudolph Heine
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992)
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4786F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4786F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13

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