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To N. N. Christophe   12 February 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.1

Feb 12 1879

Dear Sir

I beg leave to return you my sincere thanks for the kind congratulations I have received from you on the occasion of my birthday—2

Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
This letter was previously published in Correspondence vol. 27 from a description in a Stargardt catalogue. The recipient’s name is supplied from a description of the accompanying envelope. Stargardt gave the name as N. N. Christophe, of Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia (now Chernyshevskoye in Russia); Wilson gave it as Herrn Christophe. Christophe has not been identified.
2
CD was 70 on 12 February 1879.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11874F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11874F