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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[13 January 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 140
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Passes on legal advice.
He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
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Has received cheque for five guineas from Epping Forest & County of Essex Naturalists Field Club. About his letter on "Nationalisation of the Land" in the Daily News. Criticism of Nelson, who received £500 p.a. on top of his salary, plus £2000-£3000 expressly for his services re. Epping Forest. Views on Transvaal. "It is simply abominable that we should at the present day actually take away freedom from a people of European race who claim and defend it and have always done so!"
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