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To Vincent, Teja & Co   5 January 1880

Gentlemen,

I shd be much obliged if you would be so good as to apply to the R. Academy of Sciences of Turin, for the sum of 12,000 lire which have been awarded to me.1 Also I hereby authorise you to receive this sum for me, which please to & to transmit to the Union Bank of London on my account—2

Gentlemen | your obed & obliged servt | Charles Darwin

To Mssrs. —— | Turin, | Jan. 5. 1880

ADraftS

1
CD had been awarded the Bressa prize by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin (see letter to Ercole Ricotti, 4 January 1880).
2
£418 18s. 10d. was deposited into CD’s banking account on 17 January 1880 (CD’s Account books–banking account (Down House MS)).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 be … as to] interl
1.2 been] interl
1.2 Also] above del ‘&’
1.3 sum … please to] interl above del ‘same’
1.3 to the Union 1.4] ‘to’ above del ‘to me through’
1.4 on] interl above del ‘to’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12405,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12405