From W. D. Roebuck to G. H. Darwin   26 October 1880

Yorkshire Nat. Union | Sunny Bank, Leeds

Oct. 26th, 1880

Dear Sir/

I believe in my letter of yesterday I omitted to ask you whether the date provisionally arranged by our deputation was convenient— If not we will arrange to suit you—1

I am now able to give you exact information as to the composition of the deputation. The gentleman from Huddersfield will be Mr. George Brook FLS., my colleague in the secretaryship of the Union. In other respects the names stand as I first wrote you, except that official duties prevent Dr. Parsons2 from taking part.

I think it as well to send you, which I do by this post, one of the copies of the Address which will be given to a few of our members.3 The wording of the address is repeated in the copy & the signatures are traced from the original—

Trusting you will not scruple to alter our arrangements if necessary | Believe me | meanwhile | Yours truly | Wm. Denison Roebuck | Sec

Geo. Darwin Esq

3
CD’s copy has not been found. The address was later published in Nature, 18 November 1880, p. 57, in an article titled ‘Homage to Mr. Darwin’, which described the visit to Down House of the delegation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and CD’s response to the address. For the text of the address, see Appendix III.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12777,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12777