From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Charges to pay £ 1/111
Office of Origin Naples Twelveth Feby at eleven fifteen 4.88
From The Zoological Station2
To Darwin | Down Beckenham | London
Midst The struggle for existence Ma happy returns of Birthday wishes to you
Footnotes
The charge was probably 1s. 11d.; the telegram was delivered from Farnborough, about two miles from Down. See also Correspondence vol. 19, letter to John Lubbock, [1871 or later].
The Zoological Station at Naples had been founded by Dohrn.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Birthday greetings.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9285
- From
- Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Naples
- Postmark
- FE 12 | 74
- Source of text
- DAR 172: 1
- Physical description
- T
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9285,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9285.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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