To Raphael Meldola 12 December [1879]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

Many thanks for your note & kind wish, but I sh^d. greatly prefer to see my name amongst the subscribers in aid of a good work.—¹ You have, however, omitted to enclose any paper to fill up.— I am extremely sorry to hear about Wallace.—²

In Haste | C.D.

Dec. 12^th.—

ApcS

Postmark: DE 13 79

See letter from Raphael Meldola, 11 December 1879 and n. 1. CD wanted to subscribe to Meldola’s translation of August Weismann’s Studies in the theory of descent (Weismann 1880–2), rather than receive a free copy.

Alfred Russel Wallace had failed to be appointed superintendent of Epping Forest. See letter from Raphael Meldola, 11 December 1879 and n. 3.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12354,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12354