To Paul Broca [after 9 December 1871]1
Dear & Respected Sir
I request that you will present my sincere thanks to the Mesrs of the Anth. Soc. for the honour which they have conferred on me by electing me … an associate of so distinguished a body.—2
I think that the most convenient plan for sending me your Di. wd be through my bookseller, for [attn] Williams & Norgate & addressed to me at 6. Queen Anne St. Cavendish Sq London.—3
Permit me to add that I have felt especially gratified, by the honour having been communicated to me through you whom I have long & sincerely respected.—
With my best admiration | I remain | Dear Sir | Your obedient & obliged &c | C Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8103
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 111
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8103,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8103.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
