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To L. A. J. Quetelet   [after 15 December 1870]1

I beg leave to acknowledge your very obliging letter, & to return very sincere thanks for the distinguished honour conferred on me by my election as an associate of your the Royal Academy of Science2

I beg the leave to remain | your most obedient | & obliged servant Ch. Darwin

ADraftS

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from L. A. J. Quetelet, 15 December 1870.
2
CD refers to the letter from L. J. A. Quetelet, 15 December 1870, and his election as an associate of the science section of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts of Belgium.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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1.3 Science] above del ‘Belgium’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7393,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7393