From Hugh Falconer 10 November [1864]1
21 Park Crescent N.W.
10th. Novr.
My Dear Darwin
All right, no one would think for a moment of emperilling your precious health. Any of your friends will be proud to receive the medal for you at the Anniversary.2 Of that I am sure.
But I do not regret having written my last note to you—by calling your attention to the double import of the award at the present juncture.3
It is manifest to me that that the document was aimed at the two objects mentioned in my note—and I rejoice that the award came after instead of before it.
I shall not trouble you more.
Yours very Sinly | H Falconer
Footnotes
Summary
Is sure that any of CD’s friends would be proud to accept the medal on his behalf.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4669
- From
- Hugh Falconer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Park Crescent, 21
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 21
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4669,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4669.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12