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To Maurice Alberts   [after 13 February 1862]1

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge your letter & the the receipt of the Diploma of Doctor’s Degree from the Un. of B. & take this opportunity of expressing my most sincere thanks for the great Honor, which this distinguished Univ has been pleased to confer on me2

I beg leave to remain | Sir | Your most obed sv | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
Dated by the relationship to the letter from Maurice Alberts, 13 February 1862.
2
CD had been made an honorary doctor of medicine and surgery by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Breslau (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from the University of Breslau, 4 August 1861). The diploma is in DAR 229 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix IX).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3446
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Maurice Alberts
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 96: 2r
Physical description
ADraftS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3446,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3446.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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