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WCP3771

Letter (WCP3771.3684)

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4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE,

ABBEY ROAD, N.W.

Jany 3 1881

My dear Darwin1

I have no doubt your memorial,2 which I return herewith will succeed —

I was very sorry not to be able to pay you a visit just now but the necessity of Lectures at 10 AM on Mondays keeps me [2] prisoner between October & February[.]

I hope soon to have the Classification paper to send you[.]

With best wishes for 1881 to you & Mrs Darwin3 & all[.]

Evr Yours | T. H. Huxley4 [signature]

Wife5 is getting a little better & consequently wants to wait on the whole family[.]

1
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
2
CD was circulating a memorial for a civil list pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. CD had sent it to Philip Lutley Sclater; it was then to be forwarded to Bates, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and finally Thomas Henry Huxley (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880). The memorial was to be presented to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone; Parliament was to convene on 6 January 1881 (Journals of the House of Commons. Session 1881). (DCP)
3
Darwin (née Wedgwood), Emma (1808-1896). First cousin and wife of Charles Robert Darwin.
4
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). British biologist and author, known as "Darwin's Bulldog".

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3771.3684)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3771,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3771