From A. B. Buckley 13 January 1881
Villa Margherita San Remo—
Jan 13. 1881
Dear Mr. Darwin
I am glad & congratulate you most heartily on the success of your generous undertaking
Of course you were the only person who could tell Mr. Wallace— He may well be proud both of his proposer & seconders, & it is this which will make the pension a pleasure as well as a boon to him.1
Beyond being proud of the instinct which led me to state the particulars to you as the right man, I have really had nothing to do with it—2
I have always felt that your generous friendship for Mr. Wallace, & the almost overdue credit which you have always assigned to him, is one of those bright spots in the history of science, which ought to shame all those who indulge in petty jealousies; & this success is the befitting crown to the whole matter—
I shall now write & congratulate him, telling him that you have let me know, though of course it must not be spoken of till officially announced— I will also let him know who are his supporters.
I am so glad it has come just now when he is looking forward to settling down in a month or two in his little cottage at Godalming,3 so that he can work with his garden & his writing without feeling the pressure which has forced him of late to work at uncongenial writing—
With most sincere congratulations | I remain | Yours very sincerely Arabella B Buckley.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1905. My life: a record of events and opinions. 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall.
Summary
Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13010
- From
- Arabella Burton Buckley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- San Remo
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 371
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13010,” accessed on 13 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13010.xml