To F. T. Köppen 18 November 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Nov 18 1874
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for having kindly informed me of Jahn’s work, of which I had never heard.1 From what you say, it would have been of the greatest use to me before writing the Descent of Man or correcting a second edition which is now just published.
Pray believe me | dear Sir | yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Jahn, Ferdinand. 1842. Die abnormen Zustände des menschlichen Lebens als Nachbildungen und Wiederholungen normaler Zustände des Thierlebens. Eisenach: Johann Friedrich Baerecke.
Summary
Thanks FTK for telling him of Jahn’s work [see 9719], of which CD had not heard. It would have been of greatest use in writing Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9722
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 3, 3 r)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9722,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9722.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
