To Thomas Stewardson 8 May 1860
Down Bromley Kent
May 8. 1860
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 16th, in which you announce to me that I have been elected a Correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.1 I assure that I fully appreciate & feel grateful for the great honour thus conferred on me, & I remain Sir | Your obliged & obedt servant | Charles Darwin
To | Dr. Th. Stewardson | Corr. Secretary
Footnotes
Summary
Acknowledges his election as Correspondent of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2789
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Stewardson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2789,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2789.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8