WCP5505

Letter (WCP5505.6251)

[1]1

Down Beckenham Kent

My dear Huxley

I have asked Hooker to forward the memorial, & after signing it, please place it in the enclosed envelope. for me.2

N.B. Letters placed in pillar post even so late at night reach Down at noon next day. — I read a few [2] days ago in the Times a splendid Lecture by you before the Zoolog. Soc on Evolution.3

How I do hope that all our trouble about the memorial may be successful.

Ever Yours | Ch. Darwin [signature]

1
Written in the top left of the page in an unidentified hand is "[1880 Dec. 24]". The date of 29 December was established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880.
2
Joseph Dalton Hooker was the most recent person to receive the memorial for a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace (see letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880).
3
The article, headed ‘Professor Huxley on evolution’, was in The Times, 25 December 1880, p. 4. Huxley’s lecture was delivered on 14 December 1880 at the Zoological Society of London (Nature, 23 December 1880, p. 187).

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Transcribed by Darwin Correspondence Project [2020-06-12]

Please cite as “WCP5505,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5505