To L.-G. De Koninck [after 19 December 1870]1
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My dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for the kind sympathy which has caused you to write to congratulate me on my e. as Ass of your Academy & for your assistance in conferring this high honour on me.—2 I assure you that the reception of your letter, from one as so distinguished as a geologist & palæontologist, has been no ordinary [gratification] to me.— With the most [sincere] respects & my best thanks I am dear Sir Yours very faithfully & obliged | Ch. D.
Summary
Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7392
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 83
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7392,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7392.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
