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To Maurice Alberts   [after 13 February 1862]1

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge your letter & the the receipt of the Diploma of Doctor’s Degree from the Un. of B. & take this opportunity of expressing my most sincere thanks for the great Honor, which this distinguished Univ has been pleased to confer on me2

I beg leave to remain | Sir | Your most obed sv | C. Darwin

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1
Dated by the relationship to the letter from Maurice Alberts, 13 February 1862.
2
CD had been made an honorary doctor of medicine and surgery by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Breslau (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from the University of Breslau, 4 August 1861). The diploma is in DAR 229 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix IX).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 beg leave] above del ‘have the honour’
1.1 your letter & the] interl
1.3 Univ] after del ‘Body’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3446,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3446