To [Greville Williams?]1 10 February 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Feb. 10th 1882
Dear Sir
I hope that you will excuse the liberty which I take in sending the enclosed certificate for Mr. Meldola, with whom I believe you are personally acquainted.2 If you think that he is a fit person for election in the course of a few years, I hope that you will sign the enclosed & return it to me in the enclosed envelope.— But if you object to do so for any reason, the circumstance shall be mentioned to no one.
I remain Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13675
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Hanson Greville (Greville) Williams
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 20)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13675,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13675.xml
