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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
22 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/21/105)
Summary:

Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Surman
Date:
22 Dec 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.608)
Summary:

Case is hopeless since applicant [for position at British Museum] must not be over thirty years old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for his endowment of new Steudel’s Nomenclator [later to become Index Kewensis].

K. White’s gruesome ballad "Gondoline" frightened JDH as a child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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