From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 180
Summary:
Discusses possibility of Government pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 181
Summary:
Has discussed with Hooker possibility of Government pension for Wallace. Hooker is pessimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
27 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 110
Summary:
Glad to hear about vines.
Hopes JT will be able to continue work without Government aid. "It is enough to sicken one to see how politicians waste their time squabbling and neglect doing any good."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
30 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 368
Summary:
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project