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To H. W. Bates   [29 December 1880]1

Down Beckenham Kent

My dear Bates.

After signing the Memorial, please put it in enclosed envelope & post it without loss of time to Sir J. Hooker.—2

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

P.S | I am inclined to think that you had better annex your official Title to your signature, but please do as you think best.—3

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880. This letter would have been enclosed with the letter to Sclater.
2
See letter to H. W. Bates, [before 29 December 1880] and n. 2. The memorial for a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace was being circulated by having signatories forward the memorial to the next person for whom an envelope had been provided, thus reducing the time needed to get all the signatures. CD had wanted Joseph Dalton Hooker to sign near the end of the memorial.
3
Bates was assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12952,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12952