To Secretary, Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum 8 September [1857]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Sept. 8th.
Sir
I beg most respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Sept. 3d, and to express my sense of the very high honour which the Academia Cæs. Leopold. Car. Nat. Cur. has conferred on me.2
In answer to your questions I beg to state that my name is Charles Robert Darwin; that I was born at Shrewsbury on Feby. 12th 1809; that I am Magister Artium Cantabriensis, and Fellow of the Royal, the Geological, Linnean, Royal Geographical, Zoological, and Entomological Societies of London.—
With the highest respect, I have the honour to remain, Sir, | Your obliged & obedient servant | Ch. R. Darwin To the Honourable Secretary | Acad. Cæs. Leopold. Car. &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
LL: The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Edited by Francis Darwin. 3 vols. London: John Murray. 1887–8.
Summary
CD acknowledges honour of his election to the Academy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2138
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 200–202 )
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2138,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2138.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
