Letter From Richard Owen

This is an autographed letter from Richard Owens.  It is 4.5 x 5.5 inches, signed, personal stationary, November 8, 1881.  "Accept, with every good wish, this easy fulfillment of the desire, with which you have favored..." This has a bold signature. Toning on the reverse.  

It is interesting that when the letter is opened, he apparently inserted a picture of himself (to me it does not look like him) from a wood cut.  I do not know why.  See the images.

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologists. He was widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential biologists of his time.

Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He was the driving force behind the establishment, in 1881, of the British Museum of Natural History in London. In 1841 Owen coined the word 'dinosaur' from the Green words Deinos (fearfully great) and sauros (lizard).