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Villa Margherita San Remo Italy

Jan. 11. 1881.

Dear Mr. Darwin,

Thank you so much for writing to me all about the memorial, especially after you had already written so many letters I feel that it is almost certain to succeed.¹ With such names it cannot fail² Your letter was forwarded to me here, where I have come to stop a couple of months with some friends I wish you could travel easily so as to have the advantage of the beautiful bright sun & cloudless skies, it is so refreshing. I will wait till we know the fate of the memorial & then will show the list to Mr. Wallace I am sure he will be much gratified with the appreciation it shows Till we are quite sure it is better I think not to remind him of it so that he may not dwell upon it

There is a young fellow Mr. Alfred Haddon of Cambridge who has just been appointed professor of Zoology at Dublin who has such a great desire to see you if only once³ He is I think a man who will do splendid work by & bye For the present he is in Dublin but when he is in England next summer or autumn if he might call on you one day when you happen to be in town you would confer an immense pleasure. He brought some excellent preparations from the Naples station for the Cambridge Museum⁴I only mention this now because it is in my mind so that if at any time you happen to hear of him you may know who he is With kind regards to Mrs. Darwin

I remain | Yrs very sincerely | Arabella B Buckley [signature]