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To Francis Boott   [3 February 1842]1

12 Upper Gower St

Thursday

My dear Sir

I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenæum Club (if you ever attend the evening meetings)2 in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin, at the ballot on next Monday (7th).3 If you can so far oblige me, I shall esteem it a great kindness.4

Believe me my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
The date is established by the date of the vote on Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s candidacy for membership of the Athenaeum Club, Monday 7 February 1842 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to J. F. Royle, [2 February 1842] and n. 1, and n. 4, below). The preceding Thursday was 3 February.
2
The balloting on candidates for membership of the Athenaeum Club was held between 9 and 10:30 P.M. (Ward 1926).
3
See n. 1, above.
4
Erasmus became a member of the Athenaeum Club in 1842 (Waugh [1888]).

Bibliography

Ward, Thomas Humphry. 1926. History of the Athenæum, 1824-1925. London: printed for the Athenæum Club.

Waugh, Francis Gledstanes. [1888.] Members of the Athenæum Club, 1824 to 1887. N.p.: privately printed.

Summary

"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-617F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Francis Boott
Source of text
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2006, lot 34)
Physical description
ALS

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 617F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-617F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13 (Supplement)

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