WCP7147

Letter (WCP7147.8278)

[1]

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 sign3 I sincerely hope that you may approve

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

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.
3
Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Lubbock.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP7147.8278)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP7147,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7147