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To Theodor von Heldreich   1 July 1880

Down | etc. etc.

July 1. 1880.

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me your Essay & Poem with notes.—1 I beg you also to give my best thanks to Dr. Meliarakis for the honour which he has done me by publishing the account of my life & works—2

I remain, Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin.

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1
Heldreich sent an offprint of his article ‘Beiträge zur Kentniss des Vaterlandes und der geographischen Verbreitung der Rosskastanie, des Nussbaums und der Buche’ (Contributions to the understanding of the native range and geographical distribution of the horse chestnut, walnut and beech; Heldreich 1879). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The poem was probably Musinitza: eine Idylle vom Korax (Heldreich 1880); no copy has been found in the Darwin Library–CUL or Down.
2
Spyridon Miliarakis had translated into Greek William Preyer’s biographical sketch of CD which had appeared in the special issue of Kosmos celebrating CD’s seventieth birthday (Preyer 1879; Miliarakis trans. 1880).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12646,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12646