To Otto Hahn   20 December 1880

Down | Beckenham Kent

December 20. 1880

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for the gift of your magnificently illustrated work and your very courteous letter.1 If you succeed in convincing several judges as truthworthy as Professor Quenstedt,2 you will certainly have made one of the most remarkable discoveries ever recorded.

I remain Dear Sir | your faithfull and obliged | Charles Darwin

See letter from Otto Hahn, 16 December 1880 and n. 1. Hahn sent a copy of Hahn 1880.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12929F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12929F