To James Hunt 28 May [1861]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 28th.
My dear Sir
I hope that you will be so good as to present my sincere thanks to the President & Council of the Ethnological Society for the distinguished honour which they have conferred on me in electing me one of their Honorary Fellows.1 I am also very much obliged for the present of the Vol. I. of the Transactions.2
I beg leave to remain | Dear Sir | Your obliged & obed. servant | Charles Darwin
P.S. | Permit me to thank you personally for the very kind expression towards me in your letter.3
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3163
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Hunt
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MY 28 61
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3163,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3163.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 9
