Charles Darwin an Ernst Haeckel, Down, 7. November 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S. E.
Nov 7. 1868.
My dear Häckel
I received yesterday mg your Schopfung Geschichte & I am very much obliged for it. I plainly see that I shall have to read the whole, but that as you know, will take me a long time. I have looked at one or two parts, & I see that, as usual, you have piled honours high on my head. ||
What an indomitable worker you are! & tell your wife from me with my kind compliments, if she will accept them, that she ought to scold you every day of your life, & not let you work so hard, for you will surely hurt yourself. It is almost laughable the amount of work you get thro’ compareda with what I can. I began an essay on the descent of Man & on Sexual selection (which latter || subject I shall treat very fully) immediately when I finished my last book, & it will not be finished for another year, altho’ it will not be half as long as yours. I read with extreme interest your essay on Man in the popular Journal the name of which I forget, & it is quite curious how we take exactly the same view on many points, & if your essay were translated into English it wd make the publication of mine almost superfluous – ||
Accept my cordial good wishes, do not work too hard, & believe me
yours most sincerely
Charles Darwin
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