From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
24 Old Sqr. | Linc. Inn | W.C.
4. 9. 71
Dear Sir,
I beg to acknowledge the rect of your cheque for £5 for the
Voysey Establisht. Fund
which I will hand over to our Treasr. on his return to Inn.—1 I am sure too I may announce beforehand the pleasure with which our Committee will tomorrow greet my announcement of your consent to allow your influential name to appear amongst the members of our general Committee. We want sadly to gain a little more notice & sympathy from amongst the members of the scientific & philosophical world—2 We know many of them share our views to a large—very large extent— how happens it then that they are so content to sit above the thunder clouds & see the lightining play below?— but perhaps they will not do so—& your example will tend to instill a little zeal & courage perhaps into them
Believe me | Yours faithfully | F. A. Hanbury | Hon Secy to the Voysey Establisht. Fund
Chas Darwin Esq | FRS &c.
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
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7923
- From
- Francis Alfred Hanbury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Lincoln’s Inn
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 94
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7923,” accessed on 4 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7923.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19