skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

To ?   21 March 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent

March 21. 76

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your great kindness in informing me about the gems & sending me the impressions. I am however so ignorant in Archaeology that I will not accept your very obliging offer of sending me one of your valuable gems for inspection.1

With my best thanks & compliments | I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

No letter to CD on this subject has been found.

Summary

Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10423F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Unidentified
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2)
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10423F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10423F.xml

letter