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To Ferdinand von Hochstetter   14 February 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb. 14th 1877

Dear Sir

I request that you will be so good as to return to the Trustees of your Anthropological Socy. my most sincere thanks for their congratulations on my birth-day, just received by Telegram.1

I can assure you that I feel very deeply the honour thus conferred on me.—

I remain, dear Sir, with much respect.—

Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
The telegram from the Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien (Anthropological Society of Vienna) has not been found. CD was 68 on 12 February 1877.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Down, | Beckenham, Kent.] before del ‘Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10844A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10844A