To Friedrich Ludwig 16 February 1879

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Feb. 16^th 1879

Dear Sir

I hope that you will be so good as to give to the Masters at your college my most sincere thanks for their kindness in congratulating me on my Birth-day.¹ To receive the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire.

Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours very truly obliged | Charles Darwin

See letter from the masters of Greiz College, 12 February 1879. CD was 70 on 12 February 1879.

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0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11884,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11884

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Sends thanks to the Masters for congratulations on his birthday, saying "the approbation & sympathy of one’s fellow-workers in the acquisition of knowledge is the highest possible reward which any man ought to desire".

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Record number: DCP-LETT-11884
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Friedrich Ludwig
Date: 16 Feb 1879
Sent from: Down
Source of text: American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Physical description: 1p & ADraftS 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 27.

To Friedrich Ludwig 16 February 1879

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