To the Secretary, Royal Society 18 November [1855]1
Down, | Bromley, | Kent
18 November
My dear Sir
I will do my best, but it is a job I feel very little fitted for. I happen to be going from home & have other engagements which I cannot put off, so that I shall not be able to send you the paper till the very end of this week,2 & I have no doubt it will require attention for
I do not know at all what ought to be said,—but I have just thought that I will look over the old speech which will be some guide.3
In Haste | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1782A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Royal Society of London
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 249: 112
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1782A,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1782A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7 (Supplement)