To Wilhelm Breitenbach 13 February 1880
Down, | Beckenham Kent. (&c).
Feb 13./80.
Dear Sir.
I thank you sincerely for your kind & courteous letter of the 10th.1 I hope that you will be so good as to return to the Society of Students at Jena my cordial acknowledgments of their kind congratulations on my birthday—2 I wish them every kind of success in their studies & throughout life— He who heartily sympathises with the work done by other men shows that he works for the sake of discovering the truth & not for gaining distinction; & this is the best of all auguries for success in the pursuit of Science.
Believe me, My dear Sir. | Yours very faithfully. | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12477
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Wilhelm Breitenbach
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 143
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12477,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12477.xml