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The Rationalist Press Association,

Limited.

Registered Offices ─

Nos. 5 & 6, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.

March 12th, 1908.

Dear Professor Haeckel,

We have fixed our Annual Dinner for Saturday, May 2nd, and again the friends are anxious prompt that I should approach you with a view of inducing you to join us on the occasion as our honoured guest. I can assure you that the keenness of our members to meet you is unprecedented, and that, if you could possibly see your way to visit London even for a few days, you would be accorded a most enthusiastic reception. Mr. McCabe would meet you on landing, and Mr. Leon would entertain you at his London house during your stay among us.

I hardly like to anticipate the further refusal – the disappointment would be so profound; but if it should really be impossible for you to leave Germany, I must beg you to send us a letter to be read at the dinner.

Do make a special effort to come.

With best wishes,

Always yours faithfully,

Charles A. Watts.

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Brief Metadaten

16066

Gattung

Brief ohne Umschlag

Verfasser

Watts, Charles Albert

Institution von

The Rationalist Press Association

Empfänger

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Entstehungsort

London

Entstehungsland aktuell

Vereinigtes Königreich

Entstehungsland zeitgenössisch

Großbritannien

Datierung

12.03.1908

Sprache

Englisch

Umfang Seiten

Umfang Blätter

Format

20,5 x 26,0 cm

Besitzende Institution

EHA Jena

Signatur

EHA Jena, A 16066

Zitiervorlage

Watts, Charles Albert an Haeckel, Ernst; London; 12.03.1908; https://haeckel-briefwechsel-projekt.uni-jena.de/de/document/b_16066