To T. M. Hughes 23 August 1880
Summary
Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 23 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12695 |
To T. M. Hughes 26 August 1880
Summary
CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 26 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12701 |
To T. M. Hughes 13 March [1873]
Summary
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 13 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS.Add. 7652/III I.11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810 |
To T. M. Hughes 24 May 1875
Summary
Reports some details of the geological tour he took with Sedgwick in North Wales in 1831. Recalls how neither he nor Sedgwick saw the obvious signs of past glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas McKenny Hughes |
Date: | 24 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (Archive DDF Box 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9993 |
Hughes, T. M. | (4) |