To G. E. Mengozzi [after 24 November 1880]1
[Down.]
Dear Sir.
I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for your extremely k. l. of Nov. 24th & for the gift of your magnificent volume.
I further beg that you will give to your Society my cordial thanks for the great honour which they have in so distinguished manner conferred on me.—2
I remain, Dear Sir | With much respect | Yours faithfully & much obliged | C. D.
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. E. Mengozzi, 24 November 1880.
With his letter of 24 November 1880, Mengozzi sent Mengozzi 1881, which contained a dedication to CD on pp. vii–xxv, and told CD he had been made the first honorary member of the Accademia Nazionale, la Scuola Italica.
Bibliography
Mengozzi, Giovanni Ettore. 1881. Nuova classificazione degli esseri naturali e saggio sulla generazione degli animali. Rome: Tipografia Alle Terme Diocleziane.
Summary
Asks GEM to thank La Scuola Italica for the honour conferred upon him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12853
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 112v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p (on 12852)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12853,” accessed on 6 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12853.xml
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