To Albert Gaudry 19 February 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb 19 1873
Dear Sir
I am greatly obliged by the gift of the first number of your magnificent work on the fossils of Mt Léberon.1 I really do not feel worthy of your repeated acts of generosity.
With the most sincere respect I remain dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Gaudry had written the section on vertebrates in Animaux fossiles du Mont Léberon (Vaucluse) (Gaudry et al. 1873). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.
Summary
Thanks for gift of first part of AG’s magnificent work [Animaux fossiles du mont Léberon (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8776
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b.7, fasc. 28, doc. 5)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8776,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8776.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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