To George Bentham 27 December 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Dec 27 1880
My dear Mr Bentham
If you would not object to sign the enclosed Certificate for my son Francis, it would greatly please him & me.1 Though he has done no systematic work, some of his Botanical papers appear to me to possess some value.—2 If, however, you doubt whether my son ought to be proposed, I trust that you will merely return the certificate without your signature in the enclosed envelope.—
Believe me, my dear Mr Bentham | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12942
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12942,” accessed on 20 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12942.xml