To H. W. Bates 12 February 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Feb— 12th. 79
Dear Bates
Enclosed is the certificate with 7 signatures, which I shd. think was ample, but I send it to you instead of direct to R. S., as you might like to get through some mutual friend Sir H. C. Rawlinson’s signature, whom I do not know.— If I were in your place I shd. append to your title “Ex Pres of Ent. Socy.”; but you are the best judge of this.—1 I think that you had better send the certificate, with note enclosed by a safe hand or registered.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Encloses HWB’s Royal Society certificate with seven signatures, which CD thinks is ample.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11871F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry Walter Bates
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Nate D. Sanders Auctions (dealer) (14 December 2017, lot 74)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11871F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11871F.xml