To W. R. S. Ralston 24 April [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
April 24th
Dear Sir
I hope that you will excuse, on the grounds of your friendship with the Litchfields2 my begging a favour of you.— I have received from Russia a bulky Diploma & enclosed letter, of neither of which can I read a word.—3 I shd be very sorry to be so ungracious as not to return my thanks.
Will you, therefore, be so very kind as, not to translate the letter, but just tell me what the Diploma is, & who sends it, & whence it comes.—
Hoping that you will excuse me, I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Asks WRSR to explain a diploma and letter he has received from Russia, so he can return his thanks. [Probably a reference to CD’s being made an honorary fellow of the Society of Naturalists of the Imperial Kazan University in 1875.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9947
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 218–219)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9947,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9947.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23