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To G. E. Mengozzi   [after 24 November 1880]1

[Down.]

Dear Sir.

I beg leave to acknowledge & thank you for your extremely k. l. of Nov. 24th & for the gift of your magnificent volume.

I further beg that you will give to your Society my cordial thanks for the great honour which they have in so distinguished manner conferred on me.—2

I remain, Dear Sir | With much respect | Yours faithfully & much obliged | C. D.

ADraftS

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. E. Mengozzi, 24 November 1880.
2
With his letter of 24 November 1880, Mengozzi sent Mengozzi 1881, which contained a dedication to CD on pp. vii–xxv, and told CD he had been made the first honorary member of the Accademia Nazionale, la Scuola Italica.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 extremely] above del ‘vy’
2.1 give] after del ‘return to’
2.2 in … manner] transposed from after ‘on me’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12853,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12853