To W. B. Cheadle 31 January 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 31. 1879
Dear Sir,
As I can hardly consider myself as coming with the class who will sign your petition I do not like to sign it, although I fully think that the establishment of a Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge would be desirable.1
Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
P.S. | One my sons tells me that he fancies that you have fallen into a slight mistake as to the abolition of Medical fellowships at Trinity2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Clark, John Willis. 1904. Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11852
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Walter Butler Cheadle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11852,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11852.xml