Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
My dear Hooker
Will you please read the enclosed Memorial & as I hope sign it, & then put it in enclosed envelope for Huxley.—2 No time shd be lost on account of the meeting of Parliament.—3
The memorial was to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. It has not been found, but there is a draft of it in DAR 196: 3; for a transcription, see Appendix VI. Thomas Henry Huxley would be the last to sign before CD submitted it to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone.