To ? 21 April 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
April 21st 1879
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your courteous letter & for the gift of your articles, which I will soon read.1 It is very gratifying to me to hear that agriculturists attend at all to my works.—
I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
P.S | As I have great difficulty in reading German letters, I have been compelled to gum your address to the envelope of this note.—
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12006F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- RR Auction (dealers) (July 2006)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12006F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12006F.xml