WCP7158

Letter (WCP7158.8289)

[1]1

Down Beckenham

Jan. 7th.

My dear Miss Buckley

Here is good news read the enclosed, copied from note just received in Mr. Gladstone’s own hand-writing.2 I had intended to ask you to inform Mr. Wallace, but all my family thought that as Mr. Gladstone’s note was addressed to me, I ought myself to inform Mr. Wallace. This I have done telling him a little about the Memorial, but not who signed it.3 It is evident that the D. of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Mr. Gladstone.4 I will write to the Duke.5How extraordinaryly kind of Mr. Gladstone to find time to write under present circumstances.6

Good Heavens how pleased I am. In haste | Yours very truly Ch. Darwin

I suppose that Mr. Gladstone’s note ought to be considered to a certain extent private

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from W. E. Gladstone, 6 January 1881.
2
William Ewart Gladstone had recommended Alfred Russel Wallace for a Civil List pension (see letter from W. E. Gladstone, 6 January 1881 and n. 1).
3
See letter to A. R. Wallace, 7 January 1881; it includes a list of signatories.
4
CD has asked George Douglas Campbell, eighth duke of Argyll to write a separate letter of support to Gladstone (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to G. D. Campbell, [before 27 December 1880] and n. 4). Campbell’s letter to Gladstone has not been found.
5
See letter to G. D. Campbell, [7 January 1881].
6
Parliament convened on 6 January 1881 (Journals of the House of Commons. Session 1881).

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Transcribed by Darwin Correspondence Project [2020-06-15]

Please cite as “WCP7158,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7158