To John Tyndall 11 April 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Ap 11 1873
My dear Tyndall
You have had magnificent success. I enclose a list which I think includes all the names; if it does not please to inform me.1
I heard from Lubbock this mg & the figures opposite the names shew the sums actually received by him.2
We are certain of 1700 & shall probably get 1800 Is not this grand?
I rather expect a subscription from Dr A. Clark, who was delighted at my news under a medical point of view.3 I wish Mrs L. had not subscribed at all; though she has so good a heart— We had better keep her amount secret.4
I further much wish that Hooker had not given so much. As soon as I hear from Lubbock that all have subscribed (or we know that some will not) Lubbock will place the amount to H’s acct, & I will write to him. I have made up my mind, if H. refuses, to write to him & to say that I will not accept his answer until he has taken a few more days for consideration, & will supplicate him, & use every argument that I can think of, to make him change his mind. I wish you had undertaken this part of the job, for I believe you wd have done it better. Hooker, however, saw & approved of a rough copy of my intended letter.5 I will of course tell you every thing as it happens—
My dear Tyndall | yours most sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Sends JT the list and amounts subscribed for Huxley. It will probably amount to £1800. He will write to Huxley and use every argument he can to make him accept.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8856
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Tyndall
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 261.8: 14 (EH 88205952)
- Physical description
- LS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8856,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8856.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21