From:
Marianne Darwin; Marianne Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1826]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 26
Summary:
Spark has died. Other family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Spark has died. Other family news.
Denies any knowledge of a R.S.L. Council meeting. Trusts the council will make its decisions based on public duty and science, not on the fact that the decision must be defended in later discussions. Has passed [George] Fisher's letter on to members as ES requested.
Claims 'it never entered [his] head' that an appointed committee would be influenced solely by the need to defend its decisions. Restates his opinion that the subject should be properly considered.