To Hendrik Weyenbergh 18 March 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dear Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of the very handsome Diploma of your Society, & to repeat my thanks for the honour conferred on me.1 According to your request I enclose my photograph, & I have directed my publisher to send a copy of my Origin of Species2 to the Society as I suppose that this is the best of my works.
I have the honour to remain, | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Mar 18. | 1879 | To the President | Dr H. Weyenbergh
Footnotes
Bibliography
Origin 6th ed.: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 6th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Acknowledges the diploma [of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina].
Sends his photograph and a copy of Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11943
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hendrik Weyenbergh
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Argentina
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11943,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11943.xml
