From J. S. Craig 4 November 1872
University of Aberdeen
4th. November 1872
Sir
I am commissioned by a number of the students of this University who are desirous of nominating you as Lord Rector, to enquire whether the state of your health, as currently reported, is such as to prevent your coming forward as a candidate for that office.1
I am | Sir | your obedient servant | John S Craig
Charles Darwin Esqr.
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8596
- From
- John Smith Craig
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- University of Aberdeen
- Source of text
- DAR 96: 112
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8596,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8596.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
