To J. P. Cooke 20 February 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb. 20th 1874
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge your letter of Jan. 28th in which you announce to me that the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has conferred on me the distinguished honour of electing me a Foreign Honorary Member.1
I request that you will return to the Academy my most sincere thanks for this honour, & I remain | Sir | Your obedient & obliged servant | Ch. Darwin
To the Secretary Amer. Acad. of Arts & Sciences.—
Footnotes
See letter from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28 January 1874. For the diploma, see Appendix III.
Summary
Thanks for his election as Foreign Honorary Member.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9305
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Josiah Parsons Cooke
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Letterbook 07-36)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9305,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9305.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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