To T. M. Hocken 21 February 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington S.E.R.)
Dear Sir
I received this morning your letter of Decr 30th & the Address, which has deeply gratified me.1 I hope that you will express to the Council of the Otago Institution my gratitude for the very great & unusual honour thus conferred on me.— This honour is peculiarly gratifying to me, as coming from New Zealand, the wonderful progress of which has interested me greatly.— I have read every one of the volumes of the New Zealand Institute from the first, as each appeared successively, & always with admiration at the success & zeal with which Science is followed in a Country, destined, as I believe, Great Britain of the Southern hemisphere.—2
I beg leave to return to you personally my sincere thanks for your very kind & courteous letter, & I remain, Dear Sir
Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
To | T. M. Hocken, Esq | President of the Otago Institute
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks for honour conferred upon him by the Otago Institute.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13059
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Morland Hocken
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Otago Library, Special Collections (Hocken Collection: Flotsam & Jetsam 5: 119)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp & ADraftS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13059,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13059.xml
