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From Alfred Tylor   20 March 1880

22a Queen Annes Gate | Westminster

Mar 20 80

Dear Mr Darwin

If one of your sons would come to the Anthropological Institute on Mar 23rd next Tuesday my paper on what I believe is a new law directing change of Species I should be very glad to see him.1 I hope you have passed a good winter

A R Wallace complains of cold and the East Wind

Is it not possible that some small appointment should be found for him? He feels the labour of working for the Booksellers rather trying I fear when he is not very strong    He is 57 years of age and has been much discouraged since he was unsuccessful in his application for the manager of Epping Forest in November last—2

Believe me to remain | Yours very truly | Alfred Tylor | of Carshalton

1
CD’s sons were William Erasmus, George Howard, Francis, Leonard, and Horace Darwin. Tylor read his paper ‘On a new method of expressing degree of changes of specific form in the organic world, especially referring to the development of the mind and body of man’ at an ordinary meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 10 (1881): 436); it was not published.
2
Alfred Russel Wallace had told CD that he was seeking ‘some easy occupation for [his] declining years with not too much confinement or desk-work’. Wallace regularly wrote reviews and articles for periodicals. CD had supported his unsuccessful application to become superintendent of Epping Forest (see Correspondence vol. 26, letter to A. R. Wallace, 16 September 1878, and this volume, letter from A. R. Wallace, 9 January 1880).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12540,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12540