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To Rudolf Schmid   25 September 1876

Down. | Beckenham, Kent.

Sept. 25. 1876.

Dear & Respected Sir,

I thank you for your extremely kind and courteous letter, and for the present of your Book.1 I hope to read it before long, but at present I have another German book in hand which I have promised to read, and I am a very poor scholar in your language.

I feel sure that nothing in your work will give me the least offence, however much we may differ, for the spirit of your letter proves to me that you would never intentionally misrepresent any man’s views.

With much respect and my best thanks, I remain | Your’s faithfully | Charles Darwin.

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Schmid’s letter has not been found; he sent CD a copy of Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral (Darwinian theories and their relation to philosophy, religion and morality; Schmid 1876). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. For more on Schmid’s critique of theories of evolution, see Gregory 1992, pp. 171–88.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10616,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10616