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From L. A. Errera   12 August 1878

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12/8/781

Dear Sir

I thank you very much for your kind letter.2 I regret extremely not to have found you at home & hope to be more fortunate another time.3 If ever you should come on the continent, I should be most thankful to you to let me know it, so that I might try to have the honour of making your personal acquaintance.

Allow me to profit by this letter to congratulate you very sincerely on your recent election as an Associate of the French Acad. of Sc4

I remain, Dear Sir | Yours most respectfully

Draft(A?)

1
The place and date were added to the draft in a contemporary hand, probably Errera’s; the rest of the draft is not in his handwriting.
2
Letter to Leo Errera, 8 August [1878]. The surviving envelope indicates that CD’s letter was posted to London, but forwarded to Blankenberghe (now Blankenberge), a seaside resort in Belgium.
3
The Darwins visited family in Surrey and Staffordshire between 7 and 22 August 1878 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).
4
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).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11652,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11652