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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Max Steffen   17 February 1882

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Feb. 17th 1882

Dear Sir

I hope that you will express to your fellow-students my thanks for their kind good wishes on my birth-day. I sincerely, hope that you may all be successful in your several careers, & all fairly happy.—1

Believe me | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

See letter from Max Steffen, 12 February 1882. CD’s birthday was 12 February; he was 73.

Summary

CD thanks MS and his fellow German students for their kind birthday wishes.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13691A
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13691A,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13691A.xml

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