To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [4 February 1876]1
6. Queen Anne St
Friday | morning
Dear Dyer
I write to congratulate you & all supporters of Linn. Soc. at the splendid success last night.2 I heard that that there were only 5 black-balls. I shd. like to know who the 5 men were, & I would wager that they are about the poorest curs in London.
Ray Lankester may well be proud of his triumph.— Tell Hooker I feel greatly aggrieved by him; I went to Royal Soc. to see him for once in the Chair of the Royal & to admire his dignity & enjoy it, & lo & behold he was not there.3 My outing gave me much satisfaction, & I was particularly glad to see Mr. Bentham4 & to see him looking so wonderfully well & young. I saw lots of people & it has not done me not a penny’s worth of harm, though I could not get to sleep till nearly 4 oclock.—
You must feel much relieved that all this odious bother is over so successfully & I heartily sympathise with you.
Yours very sincerely | Ch Darwin
We go home early tomorrow morning—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.
Mentions visit to Royal Society.
Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10380
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- London, Queen Anne St, 6
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10380,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10380.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24