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Darwin Correspondence Project

From L. A. Errera   25 March 1879

6A, Rue Royale | Bruxelles

March 25 1879

Dear Sir

I hope you will excuse me for not answering your exceedingly kind letter earlier, especially as you honor me with a request for my photograph; but I had not one left.1 I have just received the first copy of a new one, of which I respectfully beg your acceptance. Were it not too presuming, I would venture to ask for yours; this favor I hope you will grant.

Your very kind words are a great encouragement for my friend Gevaert and self, and we feel most proud to receive this consecration of yours on our first steps in Science.2

Yours gratefully | Leo Errera

Footnotes

See letter to L. A. Errera, 13 March 1879 and n. 4. The photograph of Errera has not been found.

Bibliography

Errera, Léo and Gevaert, Gustave. 1878. Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs et en particulier sur l’hétérostylie du Primula elatior. Appendice. Pentstemon gentianoides et Penstemon Hartwegi, par Léo Errera. Bulletin de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique 17: 38–248.

Summary

Sends his photograph as requested.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11951
From
Léo Abram Errera
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Brussels
Source of text
DAR 163: 29
Physical description
ALS 2pp & ADraftS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11951,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11951.xml

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