To A. B. Buckley 9 November 1880
Down Beckenham
Nov. 9th. 1880
My dear Miss Buckley
Your last letter and the M.S. notes are all as clear and full as could possibly be desired.— I quite agree with your summary of Wallace’s more important results;1 but I have added a sentence about the colouring of animals.2 I fear that it would never do to ask a Cabinet Minister (the Duke of Argyll) to sign a memorial to the Prime Minister.—3 This morning I drew up a long and full statement of Wallace’s claims, position &c., and have sent it to be well copied.—4 Immediately on its return it shall be despatched to Huxley.5 I hardly ever wished for anything more than I do for the success of our efforts.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1878a. Tropical nature, and other essays. London: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12806
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arabella Burton Buckley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 183
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12806,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12806.xml
