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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Pieter Harting   18 July [1875–81]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 18th

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your kind note.—2 It gives me much pleasure to send you two photographs, & you can select which you like for your Album & throw away the other.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

The year range is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used from late 1874; he died in April 1882.
No letters from Harting to CD have been found. In 1877, CD expressed his appreciation to Harting for an album of photographs of his Dutch admirers (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Pieter Harting, 19 March 1877).

Summary

Sends photographs.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11062
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Pieter Harting
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11062,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11062.xml

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