To Edward Cresy 29 January [1868]1
Down, Bromley, Kent
Jan: 29th.
My dear Cresy
Cordial thanks for your extremely kind note which has pleased me much, and will please George when he sees it.2
His success did give us very great pleasure, for we hardly ventured to hope for so high a place.
Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Edward Cresy, 27 January 1868.
See letter from Edward Cresy, 27 January 1868. Cresy had written to congratulate CD on George Howard Darwin’s examination results.
Summary
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5813
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Cresy, Jr
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 326
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5813,” accessed on 10 December 2019, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-5813.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
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