To ? 20 November [1871]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 20
[A. L. s. to an unnamed correspondent asking for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent him by Dr. Spengel from Germany.2 1 page 8vo. At the foot of this letter Darwin has written ‘The Titles are next Page’ but this is missing.]
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. W. Spengel, 4 November 1871.
Johann Wilhelm Spengel had sent CD a revised bibliography of works on Darwinian theory published mainly in German (see letter from J. W. Spengel, 4 November 1871 and n. 3).
Summary
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8076
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
- Physical description
- ALS ** 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8076,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8076.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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