Dora Schmitz an Ernst Haeckel, London, 28 Januar 1907

12 Leamington Road Villas

Bayswater, London W.

January 28th 1907

My dear & ever-revered Professor Haeckel,

I yesterday read with the utmost regret the report that you have lately been far from well, and I cannot refrain from sending you a few lines to say how sorry I am to think of you out of health. I trust you are not actually suffering much & that you may soon be well again. || I have never ceased to look upon you, dear Professor, as one who has given me the fullest & grandest view of life, & my gratitude is ever there. My thoughts too, often revert to the pleasure I had in making your personal acquaintance. I still treasure two little poems of Goethe’s you wrote out for me in my little study in the dear old home, & where you discovered || the „blue-stocking” who had translated your Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte!

Many years have passed since then, & my deafness now shuts me off very much from my fellow creatures & from music ‒ but I have my consolation in books, & having inherited my beloved Väterchen’s „frohe Natur” ‒ I do not readily get depressed.

But I will not tire your will more today, & again only express my || sincere hope that you may be already quite restored to health.

Believe me, my dear old Master, & most honoured friend

Yours ever sincerely

L. Dora Schmitz

Brief Metadaten

ID
17655
Gattung
Brief ohne Umschlag
Entstehungsort
Entstehungsland aktuell
Vereinigtes Königreich
Entstehungsland zeitgenössisch
Großbritannien
Datierung
28.01.1907
Sprache
Englisch
Umfang Seiten
4
Umfang Blätter
2
Format
10,0 x 15,6 cm
Besitzende Institution
EHA Jena
Signatur
EHA Jena, A 17655
Zitiervorlage
Schmitz, L. Dora an Haeckel, Ernst; London; 28.01.1907; https://haeckel-briefwechsel-projekt.uni-jena.de/de/document/b_17655