To C. G. Ehrenberg 30 December 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec 30. 73
Dear & honoured Sir,
Owing to some delay in the transit, I received only yesterday your letter of Oct. 20th, together with your extremely kind present of your last work.1 That a veteran who has done such great service for Science, & one whom I have reverenced for between 30 & 40 years, should esteem me worthy of receiving this present with its flattering inscription2 & your generous letter, is in my judgment one of the greatest honours which could possibly be conferred on me.
Pray accept my sincere thanks and with profound respect, | I beg leave to remain | Honoured Sir | Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried. 1873. Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131–98.
Summary
Thanks CGE for gift of his latest work [Mikrogeologische Studien (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9192
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenburg, Nr. 321)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9192,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9192.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
