To A. E. J. Modderman 3 June 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 3. 1875
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your obliging letter of Mar 26, and of the Diploma from the University of Leyden.1 I request that you will be so good, on any fitting occasion, to present to the Senate of your University my sincere acknowledgements for this distinguished honour, which is most highly gratifying to me—
I beg leave to remain | Sir | your obliged & obedient | Servant | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for the diploma conferring on him an honorary doctorate of medicine from Leiden University.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10007G
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 86)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10007G,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10007G.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
