To R. A. Blair 25 June 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.) [Glenridding House, Patterdale.]
June 25th 1881—
Dear Sir
I must write one line to thank you very sincerely for your kind expressions about me, which are far stronger than I deserve.1
I congratulate you on your interesting discovery of the Mastodon remains.—2 I hope that the study of natural History may give your daughter a large share of the satisfaction which the study has given me.—3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Jessie Alice Blair; see letter from R. A. Blair, 9 June 1881 and n. 4.
Summary
Congratulates him on Mastodon discovery.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13217
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Reuben Almond Blair
- Sent from
- Patterdale
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.593)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13217,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13217.xml
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