To Ernst Haeckel   11 January [1875]1

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

Jan 11

My dear Haeckel

I have received your very kind present of Hellwald.2 I had no idea that it was so large a book, otherwise I should have scrupled in accepting your kindness. With cordial thanks | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS(A)

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 20 December 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22).
2
In his letter of 20 December 1874 (Correspondence vol. 22), Haeckel had offered to send CD a copy of Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte in ihrer natürlichen Entwickelung bis zur Gegenwart (Cultural history in its natural development up to the present; Hellwald 1875). There is no copy of it in CD’s libraries at CUL or Down.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 that] interl in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9811,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9811