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To Samuel Smiles    16 December 1876

Down, Beckenham, Kent

December 16, 1876.

I wrote to you yesterday addressed to the care of Mr. Murray, to thank you for your present and I write now merely to say that I shall have great pleasure in signing the proposed memorial.1

Ch. Darwin

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1
In his letter of 15 December 1876, CD had thanked Smiles for Smiles’s biography of Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876). John Murray was Smiles’s publisher. Smiles had started a memorial to have a civil-list pension awarded to Edward. CD signed, as did Joseph Dalton Hooker, George Allman, and Richard Owen. Edward was awarded £50 a year for life (A. Secord 2003, pp. 161–2).
2
The original letter is complete and is described in the sale catalogue as being one page long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10720F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10720F