My dear Huxley,

At last I have collected sufficient facts about Wallace, chiefly from Miss Buckley. The enclosed paper is too long, but I could not well make it shorter.¹ The more I hear about Wallace, the more I think that you will do a really kind action if you can start with a few good signatures for a memorial. If there is any prospect of success I would send the memorial with notes to all the men on whom we fix, and would do anything else which I possibly could. But what form the memorial ought to take, I have no idea; and I hope that you will aid in this. Nor do I know how the memorial ought to be presented; if by a deputation of two or three, I would gladly come to London for the purpose. I have scribbled down the names of the persons whom to ask to sign, that is if you approve. I could approach Lord Aberdare Pres. Geograph. Soc^y. through Bates.² Miss Buckley suggested the Duke of Argyll; and I have reason to think that he would wish to aid Wallace; but I suppose it would never do to ask a Minister to sign a memorial to the Premier.³

I have seldom wished for anything so much, as to succeed in getting some provision for Wallace.

My dear Huxley, | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

I am so anxious about this affair, that ask M^rs. Huxley to send me a Post-card with word “received”.⁴

P.S Very many thanks about letter to Nature.—

P.S. 2^d Your note about “dried” forms will give many a person a jolly laugh.⁵