From George Robert Gray 9 July 1869
British Museum
9th. July 1869
Dear Mr Darwin
I should feel greatly obliged if you would kindly favour me with a testimonial of my abilities &c. as a Naturalist it might prove highly useful to me at the present moment1
I remain in haste | faithfully Yours | George Robert Gray
C. Darwin; Esqre
Footnotes
Gray became senior assistant keeper at the British Museum at the end of July 1869 (ODNB).
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Asks for a testimonial.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6824
- From
- George Robert Gray
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- British Museum
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 69v
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6824,” accessed on 26 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6824.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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