From Louis Agassiz   6 July 1869

Museum of Comparative Zoology, | at Harvard College, | Cambridge, Mass.,

7th. 6th. 1869

My dear Sir,

It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you my only son Alexander Ag⁠⟨⁠as⁠⟩⁠siz,1 the more so as I beleive you will find him more tractable than myself upon questions which you are especially interested about.2

Ever truly yours | Ls Agassiz

Ch. Darwin Esqr.

CD annotations

End of letter: ‘115 Jermyn St | S.W.’3 pencil
1
Alexander Agassiz travelled to Britain in September 1869 (G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 97).
2
For Alexander Agassiz’s views on Darwinism, see Winsor 1991, pp. 148–63.
3
Asa and Jane Loring Gray stayed at 115 Jermyn Street (a private hotel) when they arrived in London (see letter from Asa Gray, 23 August 1869; Post Office London directory 1869); Alexander Agassiz may have stayed there too.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6817,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6817