From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait [30 March 1882]1
Down | Beckenham
Dear Mr Tait,
My father will be very glad to keep the proof of the medal and asks me to thank you cordially for it.2
Many thanks also for your kind expressions about his health; I think he is decidely better again3
Yrs very truly | Francis Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by a pencil note on the letter in an unknown hand.
The medal was struck in connection with the ‘Darwin Prize’ instituted by the Midland Union of Natural History Societies (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from E. W. Badger, 17 July 1880). The die for the medal was cut by Joseph Moore; one side showed a bust of CD and the other showed a branch of coral (Midland Naturalist 5 (1882): 159). The proof has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
CD mentioned being very unwell for several days in his letter to W. D. Crick, 10 March [1882].
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
CD will be glad to keep the proof of the medal.
He is decidedly better again.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13749
- From
- Francis Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 42
- Physical description
- ALS 1p (Photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13749,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13749.xml
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