WCP7160

Letter (WCP7160.8291)

[1]

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Jan. 3d. 1881 (After our 2d Post)

My dear Bates

I am rather alarmed about the Memorial for Wallace. Mr. Sclater wrote that he had forwarded it to you. Have you received it & on what day did you forward it to Sir J. Hooker.?1 Pray forgive me troubling you. I am most disappointed at not having been able to get the M. into Mr Gladstone’s hands some days before meeting of Parliament.2

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)

1
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 to Thomas Henry Huxley (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880). Sclater’s letter to CD has not been found. For the draft of the memorial, see Correspondence vol. 28, Appendix V.
2
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).

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

Please cite as “WCP7160,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7160