To F. C. Donders 29 April [1872]1
Down | Beckenham Kent.
April 29.
My dear Professor Donders.
Very many thanks for your letter. The honour of being elected a foreign member of your Royal Society has pleased me much.2 The sympathy of his fellow workers has always appeared to me by far the highest reward to which any scientific man can look My gratification has been not a little increased by first hearing of the honour from you.
Believe me | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin—
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from F. C. Donders, 26 April 1872.
See letter from F. C. Donders, 26 April 1872 and n. 3.
Summary
Expresses gratitude on election to Royal Netherlands Academy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8302
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 414
- Physical description
- C 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8302,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8302.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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