To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
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Sunday
My dear Lyell
Emma has this minute read to me out of the Times what Her Majesty has pleased to do to you.—1 I am delighted for your sake & for the sake of Geology.— Pray give our kindest remembrances to Lady Lyell; how well it sounds.!
I must, however, say that I have mentally for some years back most heartily abused the Government for not having long ago by so small an outward token marked your public estimation. I am sure I do not know whether I ought not to apologise for congratulating you on such an occasion, but I am sure you will forgive me for being thoroughily pleased. I am equally in the dark whether I ought to direct this to you as I have done. I must just see how it looks so my dear Sir Charles Lyell
Farewell | C. Darwin
(Don’t think of answering this.—)
Footnotes
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1198
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1198,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1198.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
