From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
31 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Private collection (on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Summary:
Returns HH’s essay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Returns HH’s essay.
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Writes to thank HH for his kindness in nominating son Alexander for the meteorological post [see HH's 1865-5-1].