To Armand de Quatrefages 9 July [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 9th
My dear Sir
You have been most kind & generous on my behalf, & I much regret that you should have wasted in vain so much of your valuable time.2
I shall ever feel grateful for your exertions, & with sincere respect, I remain | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8972
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8972,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8972.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21