From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 58
Summary:
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".
He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.