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To George Bentham   10 August [1878]1

Leith Hill Place | Dorking

Aug 10th

My dear Mr. Bentham

I thank you cordially for your most kind letter, & I can say with entire truth that it has given me many times more pleasure than my election as member of the Institut.2

Believe me with the highest respect. | Yours sincerely & gratefully | Charles Darwin.—

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Bentham, 7 August 1878.
2
See letter from George Bentham, 7 August 1878. CD was elected a corresponding member of the botanical section of the Académie des sciences of the Institut de France on 5 August 1878 (see letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878 and n. 2).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Leith … Dorking] above del ‘Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.’
1.2 more] above del ‘the’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11649,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11649