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To Paul Broca   [after 9 December 1871]1

Dear & Respected Sir

I request that you will present my sincere thanks to the Mesrs of the Anth. Soc. for the honour which they have conferred on me by electing me … an associate of so distinguished a body.—2

I think that the most convenient plan for sending me your Di. wd be through my bookseller, for [attn] Williams & Norgate & addressed to me at 6. Queen Anne St. Cavendish Sq London.—3

Permit me to add that I have felt especially gratified, by the honour having been communicated to me through you whom I have long & sincerely respected.—

With my best admiration | I remain | Dear Sir | Your obedient & obliged &c | C Darwin

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1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Paul Broca, 9 December 1871.
2
CD refers to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris.
3
See letter from Paul Broca, 9 December 1871. Six Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London, was the address of CD’s brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 for] after del ‘of’
1.2 an associate of] above del ‘an Hon. member of’; ‘an’ above del ‘one of the’
2.1 your] over ‘the’
2.1 my] after del ‘my’
2.2 bookseller] after del ‘book’
3.1 I have] after del ‘this has’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8103,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8103