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16, Elm Grove.

Cricklewood.

London N.W.

20. Octb. 1905.

Dear Professor Haeckel,

I am so sorry to hear you are ill. It was very kind of you to write to me in the circumstances. You must keep alive for some time yet & let us celebrate your 80th birth-day at least. You are needed in Germany, if not Europe. However, things are moving rapidly in England. I get audiences of thousands even in small places.

Now, I want to know whether you are well enough to help me in the following || matter. I have just translated your Entwickelung-Gedanke (I am sorry the R. P. A. would not publish it), & I am now requested (as the “apostle of Prof. Haeckel”, as I am called) to bring out a fine edition of Bölsche’s “Ernst Haeckel”. One of the best publishers here has taken it up, & we want to make it worthy of you- a 12/6 book at least. I will add an introduction & a chapter on your latest achievements & successes, & we want to illustrate it well. I have proposed to the publishers to obtain permission to include || in it your plates of the Protomyxa aurantiac & the Farn-Wald from your Natürliche Schöpfungs-Geschichte & the Frontispiece-plate & “Tree of Life” from your Anthropogenie, together with a few illustrations from your Kunst-Formen in der Natur & photos from your Insulinde. I hope you will not disapprove of my taste! We want also a good photo of you, of your house (or family), the University, & any others of biographical interest.

What I want to know is – Is it possible for you to send me (or direct a friend, || Fräulein Haeckel, to send me) a few photos or sketches of the latter type, & also the information which is necessary to make Bölsche’s life complete? I cannot at present get the publisher to pay my expenses to go to Jena, & in fact I am so busy lecturing that it would be difficult. But if it is too much to ask of you to send me the material I need I must pay a flying visit to Jena for one or two days. We must, the publisher says, have “a perfect book”- & I promise you it will be a fine one! Will you please tell me as soon as you can if it is possible for you to have the information & photographs (except what I can get in books) I need sent to me?

Yours very sincerely

Joseph McCabe

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            <p>	What I want to know is – Is it possible for you to send me (or direct a friend, || Fräulein Haeckel, to send me) a few photos or sketches of the latter type, &amp; also the information which is necessary to make Bölsche’s life complete? I cannot at present get the publisher to pay my expenses to go to Jena, &amp; in fact I am so busy lecturing that it would be difficult. But if it is too much to ask of you to send me the material I need I must pay a flying visit to Jena for one or two days. We must, the publisher says, have “a perfect book”- &amp; I promise you it will be a fine one! Will you please tell me as soon as you can if it is possible for you to have the information &amp; photographs (except what I can get in books) I need sent to me? </p>
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Brief Metadaten

25930

Gattung

Brief ohne Umschlag

Verfasser

McCabe, Joseph

Empfänger

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Entstehungsort

London

Entstehungsland aktuell

Vereinigtes Königreich

Entstehungsland zeitgenössisch

Großbritannien

Datierung

20.10.1905

Sprache

Englisch

Umfang Seiten

Umfang Blätter

Format

11,3 x 17,9 cm

Besitzende Institution

EHA Jena

Signatur

EHA Jena, A 25930

Zitiervorlage

McCabe, Joseph an Haeckel, Ernst; London; 20.10.1905; https://haeckel-briefwechsel-projekt.uni-jena.de/de/document/b_25930