WCP2105

Letter (WCP2105.1995)

[1]1

[February 8th 1868]2

My dear Wallace

The cover of the memorial3 should be addressed to the Secretary of the Science & Art Department South Kensington — : the memorial itself to "The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education"; and you should enclose with it a note addressed [2] to the Secretary of the Science & Art department requesting him to lay the memorial before the Lords of the Committee of Council —

That's the way the tape ties —

Sir Charles Lyell4 has the list of papers [3] He took it away with him the last time he was[?] here.

Ever yours faithfully | T H Huxley [signature]

Jermyn St

Feby 8th 1868.

Page 1 is numbered page 75 by the repository. Every second subsequent page has a consecutive handwritten number written in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
In the original the date and address are written after the salutation, as shown.
"Memorial" in the sense of statement or petition. Probably ARW's application to Professor Anstead for the post of assistant examiner in the department's Physical Geography examinations. See Wallace, A. R. 1905. My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions. 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall. Vol. 2, [p. 406].
Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). British lawyer and geologist.

Please cite as “WCP2105,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2105