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From W. E. Gladstone   30 April 1881

30 April 1881

I take the liberty of informing you that there is a vacancy created in the Trust of the British Museum by the death of Lord Beaconsfield: and to say that I shall be very happy, if it be agreeable to your views, to suggest your name for the purpose of filling that vacancy.1

The electing Trustees will meet next week: and if you permit me to place your name before them I do not doubt that they will consider it an an advantageous opportunity for doing honour not more to you than to the Museum.

Footnotes

Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, had died on 19 April 1881. At this time, the museum had fifty trustees; the three principal trustees were the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and the speaker of the House of Commons (Thornbury and Walford [1878], 4: 495).

Bibliography

Thornbury, Walter and Walford, Edward. [1878.] Old and new London. 6 vols. London, Paris, and New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin.

Summary

CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13141A
From
William Ewart Gladstone
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Source of text
The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13141A,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13141A.xml

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