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To J. P. Cooke   20 February 1874

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb. 20th 1874

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge your letter of Jan. 28th in which you announce to me that the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has conferred on me the distinguished honour of electing me a Foreign Honorary Member.1

I request that you will return to the Academy my most sincere thanks for this honour, & I remain | Sir | Your obedient & obliged servant | Ch. Darwin

To the Secretary Amer. Acad. of Arts & Sciences.—

1
See letter from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28 January 1874. For the diploma, see Appendix III.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9305,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9305