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DCP-LETT-12983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cecilia Elizabeth Gore; Cecilia Elizabeth Meetkerke
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25)
Summary:

CD thanks correspondent for her "very elegant work" – a book on nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12984

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Gladstone has recommended yearly pension of £200 for Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12985

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Informs ARW of favourable reception by Gladstone of memorial respecting ARW’s services to science, and the establishment of a pension for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356)
Summary:

Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.

Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:

CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 186
Summary:

Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12989

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of Argyll
Date:
[7 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 24
Summary:

Has heard that Gladstone will recommend A. R. [Wallace] for a pension. Thanks the Duke for having written to Gladstone on the matter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Édouard Marie (Édouard) Heckel
Date:
7 Jan [1881?]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Sends photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12991

From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7] Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 335
Summary:

Announces the resolution passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s conference of 7 Jan 1881.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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