To Gustav Jäger   17 February 1870

Feb. 17— 1870

Dear Sir

You will see, by the enclosed letter that I wrote to you in September to express my feelings about your work; and since which time I have received another copy of your book from yourself.1 I addressed the enclosed letter to the Zoological Gardens at Vienna; & it seems to have travelled all over Germany, & was returned to me this morning by the Post-Office.—2 I will address this to your publisher at Stuttgart.— I fear that you must have thought me very ungrateful to have taken no notice of your kind present, & this causes me much pain.—

Believe me dear Sir with much respect. | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
See Correspondence vol. 17, letter to Gustav Jäger, 9 September 1869. There is an annotated copy of Jäger’s book, Darwin’sche Theorie und ihre Stellung zur Moral und Religion (Jäger [1869]) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 429); CD’s other copy is now in the library of the Linnean Society of London.
2
Jäger had left the Zoological Gardens of Vienna in 1866 and in 1867 became professor of zoology and anthropology at the Hohenheim Academy near Stuttgart (DBE).

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