From E. H. Stanley 17 April 1875
F. O.
April 17. 1875.
Dear Mr Darwin,
I am honoured by your selection of me as the medium of your communication with the Government—and I have sent on your letter to the Home Secretary, in whose department the matter lies.1
Very faithfully yours | Derby
C. Darwin. Esq.
Footnotes
See letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875. The home secretary was Richard Assheton Cross; Stanley (Lord Derby) was the foreign secretary, and wrote from the Foreign Office. CD’s letter concerned a proposed bill to regulate vivisection.
Summary
He is honoured by CD’s selection of him as the medium of communication with Government. The matter [Vivisection Bill] now lies with the Home Secretary.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9938
- From
- Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Foreign Office
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 162
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9938,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9938.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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