To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
My dear Hooker
Will you please read the enclosed Memorial & as I hope sign it, & then put it in enclosed envelope for Huxley.—2 No time shd be lost on account of the meeting of Parliament.—3
Ever yours | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to P. L. Sclater, 29 December 1880. This letter would have been enclosed in the letter to H. W. Bates, [29 December 1880], itself enclosed in the letter to Sclater.
The memorial was to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. It has not been found, but there is a draft of it in DAR 196: 3; for a transcription, see Appendix VI. Thomas Henry Huxley would be the last to sign before CD submitted it to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone.
Parliament would convene on 6 January 1881 (Journals of the House of Commons. Session 1881).
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11300F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Jeffrey Winograd (private collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11300F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11300F.xml
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