To Ercole Ricotti 4 January 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan 4. 1880
Sir,
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Dec 29th in which you are so good as to inform me that the Royale Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded me the great Bressa prize.1 I hope that you will express to your Academy how deeply I feel this honour, which I believe to be the greatest which can be conferred on any scientific man. The remembrance of this award will stimulate me to do whatever little more I can do in Science during the few remaining years of my life
With great respect & gratitude | I have the honour to remain, | Sir, | Your obedient & obliged servant | Charles Darwin
P.S. | I have sent to Messrs Vincent Teja through the Union Bank of London an order signed by me to receive the 12,000 lir2
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for awarding him the Bressa prize. Has sent an order to receive the 12,000 lira.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12399F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ercole Ricotti
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/art_mag441_alberto_masi.pdf (accessed 1 December 2011)
- Physical description
- LS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12399F,” accessed on
