To Arnold Dodel   27 December 1874

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

Dec 27. 1874

Dear Sir

I am glad to say that I have this morning received the copy of your Work which you are so good as to present me with.1 Pray allow me to repeat my thanks to you for your kindness in doing so2

dear Sir | yours with much respect | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
There is a lightly annotated copy of Dodel’s Die neuere Schöpfungsgeschichte nach dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Naturwissenschaften (New history of creation according to the present state of science; Dodel 1875) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 203–4). See letter from Arnold Dodel, 13 December 1874.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9786,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9786