To Otto Hahn 20 December 1880
Down | Beckenham Kent
December 20. 1880
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for the gift of your magnificently illustrated work and your very courteous letter.1 If you succeed in convincing several judges as truthworthy as Professor Quenstedt,2 you will certainly have made one of the most remarkable discoveries ever recorded.
I remain Dear Sir | your faithfull and obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
See letter from Otto Hahn, 16 December 1880 and n. 1. Hahn sent a copy of Hahn 1880.
Bibliography
Hahn, Otto. 1880. Die Meteorite (Chondrite) und ihre Organismen. Tübingen: H. Laupp’schen Buchhandlung.
Summary
Thanks for his letter and magnificently illustrated book.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12929F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Otto Hahn
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 251: 3334
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12929F,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12929F.xml
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