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To Ludwig Noiré   19 November [1874]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Nov. 19th

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your great kindness in having sent me your work “Die Welt &c”, which I hope soon to read, but I am to my great grief a very poor German scholar & a book in that language takes me a very long time.2

With much respect, Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
The year is established by the postmark on the envelope (Professor John C. Gray, private collection); Noiré’s book (see n. 2, below) was published in 1874.
2
CD’s copy of Noiré 1874, Die Welt als Entwicklung des Geistes. Bausteine zu einer monistischen Weltanschauung (The world as development of the intellect: the elements of a monistic worldview), is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9724G,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9724G