FINE ART (From Old Masters to Modern and Contemporary Art) DESIGN, MANUSCRIPTS & PHOTOGRAPHS
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Jun 17, 2021
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LOT 729:
CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)
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Sold for: €5,700
Start price:
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6,000
Estimated price :
€6,000 - €6,500
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CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882)
Lettre aut. signée à Lord Sackville Cecil.
Down house, 8 juin 1868.
2 pp. in-8, en-tête en coin à son adresse.
Darwin prévient son correspondant que sa sœur (Caroline Wedgwood, 1800-1888) est revenue en bonne santé à Leith Hill Place; il le remercie pour sa gentillesse illimitée, “his unbounded kindness” en organisant un “train spécial” pour elle. Cependant il doute que son rétablissement sera aussi rapide, après une si terrible maladie; (…) Whether she will ever recover is very doubtful after so terrible an illness, but her husband is old & delicate, & if he had been taken ill in the same small sea-side villa, it would have killed her with distress (…). Inédite à la correspondance du savant.
