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To Leopold Würtenberger   15 January 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Jan 15. 1879

Dear Sir,

I am extremely sorry that your circumstances interfere with the continuance of your scientific work. I grieve to say that I can see no prospect of any English scientific society aiding you.1 But you may rely on my keeping your request in mind, & if any plan occurs to me I will write again in a fortnight’s time. If you do not hear you will understand that I cannot aid you & this I shall be very sorry for.2 I have carefully preserved your paper published in 1873 which then interested me greatly.3 I therefore return the copy received this morning as it might be useful to you.

I remain, | dear Sir. | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

2
CD’s next letter to Würtenberger has not been found, but see the letters to Melchior Neumayr, 15 January 1879 and 24 January 1879, and the letter from Leopold Würtenberger, 29 January 1879.
3
There is an annotated copy of Würtenberger’s ‘Neuer Beitrag zum geologischen Beweise der Darwin’schen Theorie’ (New contribution to the geological evidence for Darwinian theory; Würtenberger 1873) in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11829F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11829F