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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
23 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 43)
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Date:
26 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 8)
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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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