From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 52
Summary:
He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.
CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].
CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.
CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.