From William Saville-Kent 26 March 1877
1 Beaufort Villas, Queen’s Road | Sth Norwood.
March 26th. 77
My dear Sir,
Ever since my association with the Aquarium Movement in this country it has been my ambition to establish an Aquarium on such a footing that it shall be a real benefit to Science as well as a sound financial investment.1 A favourable opportunity for the realisation of such a project having at length arrived I am now labouring to put it into tangible shape— My express purpose in addressing you on the subject is to solicit your kind countenance of the scheme to the extent of permitting me to place your name on the list of the “Honorary Scientific Committee”, should I succeed in establishing it under the auspices referred to in the marked paragraph of my accompanying printed letter.2 Provided, likewise, I am able to satisfy you upon all necessary points of inquiry.
Trusting you may afford me a favourable reply
I remain, my dear Sir— | Yours very truly | W Saville Kent.
PS. A few words that I might make use of in recommendation of the proposed scheme would I need scarcely say be much esteemed.
Charles Darwin Esqre. FRS
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Proposes to construct an aquarium on Jersey and wants to use CD’s name in support of the project.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10915
- From
- William Saville-Kent
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- South Norwood
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 106
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10915,” accessed on
