To George Bentham 27 January [1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 27th
My dear Sir
Do you ever attend elections at Athenæum?2 If you are there on Monday next, will you let me beg your vote for a distant connexion of mine, Ch. H. Woodd. He is an excellent man, very accomplished & very fond & well versed in Geology.3 I am prevented attending myself.
Pray believe me, My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
I presume Hooker never attends but if at Kew, will you mention this for bare chance of his attendance4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13778
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Bentham
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13778,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13778.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
