From Albert Günther 6 February 1875
British Museum | Zoological Department
Febr. 6. 1875
My dear Mr. Darwin
You have always taken such a friendly interest in my progress in life that I cannot allow a day to pass without giving you the news of my appointment to the keepership.1 It is a step which will be the last & most important in my life, as the post will give me as much work as I am able to perform, and as much honour as satisfies my ambition.
Fred. Smith is to be my successor; and if a man ever merited recognition by faithful service, he is F. Smith.2
With kind regards to Mrs Darwin | Yours ever truly | A Günther
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9842
- From
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Zoological Department, British Museum
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 256
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9842,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9842.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
