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Darwin Correspondence Project

From A. B. Buckley   11 January 1881

Villa Margherita San Remo | Italy—

Jan. 11. 1881.

Dear Mr. Darwin,

Thank you so much for writing to me all about the memorial, especially after you had already written so many letters— I feel that it is almost certain to succeed.1 With such names it cannot fail—2 Your letter was forwarded to me here, where I have come to stop a couple of months with some friends— I wish you could travel easily so as to have the advantage of the beautiful bright sun & cloudless skies, it is so refreshing. I will wait till we know the fate of the memorial & then will show the list to Mr. Wallace   I am sure he will be much gratified with the appreciation it shows— Till we are quite sure it is better I think not to remind him of it so that he may not dwell upon it—

There is a young fellow Mr. Alfred Haddon of Cambridge who has just been appointed professor of Zoology at Dublin who has such a great desire to see you if only once—3 He is I think a man who will do splendid work by & bye— For the present he is in Dublin but when he is in England next summer or autumn if he might call on you one day when you happen to be in town you would confer an immense pleasure. He brought some excellent preparations from the Naples station for the Cambridge Museum—4 I only mention this now because it is in my mind so that if at any time you happen to hear of him you may know who he is— With kind regards to Mrs. Darwin

I remain | Yrs very sincerely | Arabella B Buckley

Footnotes

See letter to A. B. Buckley, 4 January 1881. Buckley had not yet received CD’s letter of 7 January [1881], informing her that the memorial for a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel Wallace had been successful.
For a list of the persons who signed the memorial, see the letter to A. B. Buckley,  4 January 1881, enclosure.
Haddon had spent six months at the zoological station at Naples in 1879; he had been appointed demonstrator of the Zoology Museum at Cambridge on his return, and then moved to Dublin in 1880 (ODNB).

Summary

Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.

Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13006
From
Arabella Burton Buckley
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
San Remo
Source of text
DAR 160: 369
Physical description
ALS 4pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13006,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13006.xml

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