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From Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff   3 February 1868

Prussian Embassy

February 3d. 1868.

Sir,

I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith a Letter by which the General Order Office at Berlin informs you that His Majesty the King,1 my Gracious Sovereign, has been pleased to confer upon you the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, and in which are enclosed the Insignia and the Statute of the Order2

It gives me great satisfaction to be one of the first to congratulate you on the high honor thus conferred upon you, and I avail myself with pleasure of this opportunity to assure you of the most distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be

Sir, | Your obedient servant | Bernstorff

Dr. Charles Darwin | Athenaeum.

1
Wilhelm I of Prussia.
2
See letter from the Commission générale des Ordres Royaux, 24 January 1868. In the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 229: 19) there is a copy of the register of members of the Royal Prussian Order of Merit in the Sciences and Arts, together with a copy of the Act of Foundation. CD’s name has been added to the register by hand.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5836,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5836