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From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait   [30 March 1882]1

Down | Beckenham

Dear Mr Tait,

My father will be very glad to keep the proof of the medal and asks me to thank you cordially for it.2

Many thanks also for your kind expressions about his health; I think he is decidely better again3

Yrs very truly | Francis Darwin

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1
The date is established by a pencil note on the letter in an unknown hand.
2
The medal was struck in connection with the ‘Darwin Prize’ instituted by the Midland Union of Natural History Societies (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from E. W. Badger, 17 July 1880). The die for the medal was cut by Joseph Moore; one side showed a bust of CD and the other showed a branch of coral (Midland Naturalist 5 (1882): 159). The proof has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
3
CD mentioned being very unwell for several days in his letter to W. D. Crick, 10 March [1882].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13749,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13749