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To L. H. Jeitteles   7 November 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Nov. 7th 1872

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your very kind letter & present of your memoir, which I hope soon to read.1 The points to which you refer are of great interest to me; but I am sorry to say that I read German with much difficulty.

I am grieved to hear that the latter years have been sorrowful & full of adversity.— As for myself, my health remains very feeble & my strength with advancing old age grows very small.

With good wishes for your future happiness & with my respect, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
See letter from L. H. Jeitteles, 3 November 1872. The memoir was the second part of Jeitteles 1871–2; there is an annotated copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8605,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8605