To Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [after 10 January 1862]1
Sir
I shd be much obliged if you would inform me what I owe to the Society Imperiale de Acclimatation for the annual Subscription, including the present year.2
Sir | Your obet sert | Ch. Darwin Monsieur
Je vous serais bien obligé de m’informer combien je dois à la Societé Impériale d’Acclimatation pour la cotisation annuelle, en y comprenant celle de l’année actuelle
Agréez Monsieur | mes hommages respectueux3
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to the letter from Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation, 10 January 1862.
There is an entry in CD’s Account book–cash accounts (Down House MS), dated 23 October 1862, that records a payment of £2 to ‘Acclimatisation Socy.’
The translation is in Emma Darwin’s hand.
Summary
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3380
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 11r
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3380,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3380.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10
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