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To Carlos Ribeiro   25 November 1880

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

November 25. 1880

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your great kindness in having sent me your great work on Prehistoric Remains in Portugal & for your paper on Tertiary Formations.1

With much respect I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

1
Ribeiro had sent the second part of his Noticia de algumas estações e monumentos prehistoricos (Report on some prehistoric sites and monuments; Ribeiro 1878–80) and his paper ‘Des formations tertiaires de Portugal’ (Tertiary formations of Portugal; Ribeiro 1880).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
1.2 for] interl
1.2 Tertiary] after del ‘on’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12857F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12857F