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To William Preyer   28 October 1881

[Down.]

Oct. 28. 1881

My dear Sir

I thank you very sincerely for your kindness in sending me your grand work “Die Seele des Kindes”. How I wish that I could read German easily, for the subject interests me much and I have no doubt that your work is excellent.1

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Copy

1
Preyer sent CD a copy of Die Seele des Kindes. Beobachtungen über die geistige Entwickelung des Menschen in den ersten Lebensjahren (The mind of the child. Observations on the intellectual development of man in the first years of life; Preyer 1882). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13438,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13438