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To W. H. Flower   17 December 1880

Down. Beckenham. Kent.

Decr 17th. 1880

My dear Flower

Please read over enclosed, about which I feel a very deep interest, & if you think fit sign it, appending “Pres. Zoologo. Soc.”—1 Please return it as soon as you can in enclosed envelope— I have asked Allman to forward it to you.2 There will be, only about a dozen signatures & all of good men.— Hooker, Huxley & Lubbock have agreed to sign—3 I sincerely hope that you may approve—

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

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1
The enclosure was the memorial 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.
2
George James Allman received this letter enclosed with the letter to him of 17 December 1880.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12923,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12923