To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 April 1881
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Saturday evening | Ap. 9th 1881
My dear Dyer
It has been extraordinarily kind of you, overworked as you are, to write about Frank.—1 I assure you that neither he nor I ever expected that he wd. be elected on the first occasion, & after reading over the long list I saw at once that it was wholly out of the question.2 There is another name on the list with incomparably higher claims than those of Frank, namely Bates, & I earnestly hope that he has been elected.—3
Believe me my dear Dyer | Yours truly & gratefully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13109
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 218–19)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13109,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13109.xml
