To R. B. Litchfield [24 April 1875]1
My dear L.
Many thanks.— I will wait for clean copies for Lyon Playfair & Ld. Cardwell;2 & I return one of yours & keep the other, for I find I have not one.—
Burdon Sanderson wishes the petition to be presented, so I shall write this evening to Sir John, to ask whether he will do so.3
Huxley has seen L. Playfair M.P who is anxious to get up subject.—
Your affect | C.D.—
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter, the letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 23 April [1875], and the letter to R. B. Litchfield, 24 April [1875].
Litchfield was working with CD to prepare a vivisection bill (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875]). CD had learned from Thomas Henry Huxley that Lyon Playfair and Edward Cardwell were interested in the bill (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 21 April 1875 and n. 1). A second draft of the vivisection bill, dated 24 April 1875, is in DAR 139.17: 32.
Burdon Sanderson advised that, in addition to the vivisection bill, a petition should also be presented to Parliament (see letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 23 April [1875] and n. 5). John Lubbock was MP for Maidstone.
Summary
On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9924
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Buckley Litchfield
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 58373)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9924,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9924.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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