To J. F. Royle [2 February 1842]
12 Upper Gower St
Wednesday
Dear Royle
My brother Erasmus Darwin’s ballot for the Athenæum comes on Monday next the 7th.— If you will attend & give him your vote, I shall feel much obliged1
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Can you, also, assist him by your interest with any friend, who may attend
Footnotes
E. A. Darwin ‘came in triumphantly without one black ball’ (Emma Darwin to Jessie Sismondi, 8 February [1842], Emma Darwin 2: 67).
Summary
Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-617
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Forbes Royle
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 617,” accessed on 25 June 2017, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-617
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
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