To George Bentham 10 August [1878]1
Leith Hill Place | Dorking
Aug 10th
My dear Mr. Bentham
I thank you cordially for your most kind letter, & I can say with entire truth that it has given me many times more pleasure than my election as member of the Institut.2
Believe me with the highest respect. | Yours sincerely & gratefully | Charles Darwin.—
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Bentham, 7 August 1878.
See letter from George Bentham, 7 August 1878. CD was elected a corresponding member of the botanical section of the Académie des sciences of the Institut de France on 5 August 1878 (see letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878 and n. 2).
Summary
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11649
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11649,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 26
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