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From Kate Barnes   18 April 1881

Mrs. S. M. Rust, Pres’t. Mrs. A. D. Fairbanks, Treas. | " Mrs Still, Vice-Pres’t. " Kate Barnes, Sec’y. | The Syracuse Botanical Club, | Syracuse, N. Y.

April 18th. 1881

Mr Darwin

Dear Sir

I am desired by the Syracuse Botanical Club to announce to you. that you have been unanimously elected by said Club, an Honorary and Corresponding member.1 I fear that one having such an immense correspondence, and such great demands upon your valuable time, will not have much time to bestow upon so small a Club. Still anything you may care to communicate to us. will be esteemed as a great favour.

Asking leniency for taking up your valuable time

I am yours sincerely | Kate S. Barnes |—Secy

Footnotes

CD had first heard about this women’s club in the letter from F. J. Myers, 20 January 1881. Barnes had been elected corresponding secretary of the club in place of Myers on 23 March 1881 (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 8 (1881): 60).

Summary

Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13125
From
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Syracuse, N.Y.
Source of text
DAR 160: 43
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13125,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13125.xml

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