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From John Tyndall   15 February 1882

Peckforton, | Tarporley.

15th. Feb. 82.

My dear Darwin

If it be next Monday I will give your friend a plumper—but if last, alas! I have been out of town.1

I go to London today and will run down to the Club to see how matters stand

Ever yours | John Tyndall

Footnotes

See letter to John Tyndall, 13 February 1882. CD was soliciting friends to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club. Dicey’s membership was balloted on Monday 20 February 1882 (see letter to W. B. Carpenter, 13 February 1882). Plumper: a vote cast at an election for a single candidate when the voter has the right to vote for two or more (OED).

Bibliography

OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.

Summary

Happy to vote for Albert Venn Dicey’s membership of the Athenaeum Club.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13688F
From
John Tyndall
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Tarporley
Source of text
John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13688F,” accessed on 30 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13688F.xml

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