To Down School Board 16 November 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
To the Chairman & Committee | of the Down School.
Gentlemen
At the next election I beg permission to resign my seat on the school-board, as the state of my health prevents my attendance; & I am unwilling to take the place of a more useful man in this important duty1
Gentlemen | Your obedient servant | Ch. R. Darwin
Nov. 16th 1874.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Must resign because of his health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9720
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Down School Board
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1)
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9720,” accessed on 2 December 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9720.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
