To Carlos Ribeiro 17 February 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Febr. 17th 1879.—
Dear Sir
I beg leave to thank you very sincerely for your great kindness in having sent me your fine work on Prehistoric Remains.—1
I remain with much respect— | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Ribeiro had sent his Noticia de algumas estações e monumentos prehistoricos (News of some prehistoric sites and monuments; Ribeiro 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.
Bibliography
Ribeiro, Carlos. 1878. Estudos prehistoricos em Portugal: noticia de algumas estações e monumentos prehistoricos. Lisbon: Typographia da academia.
Summary
Thanks for having sent prehistoric remains.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11887F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Carlos Ribeiro
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Records of the Portuguese Geological Commission 1857–1918)
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11887F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11887F.xml
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