To Eliza Meteyard [18 February 1869]1
6 Queen Anne St | W
Thursday
Dear Madam
I have signed the petition myself & have procured the signature of Sir Charles Lyell & have then forwarded the momorial to Sir John Lubbock asking him to return it to you & I hope before this you have received it.2
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Eliza Meteyard, 19 February 1869. The Thursday before 19 February 1869 was 18 February.
Summary
CD signed the petition, had Sir Charles Lyell do so also, and then forwarded the memorial to Sir John Lubbock.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6618
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Eliza Meteyard
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6618,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6618.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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