To W. H. Flower 17 December 1880
Down. Beckenham. Kent.
Decr 17th. 1880
My dear Flower
Please read over enclosed, about which I feel a very deep interest, & if you think fit sign it, appending “Pres. Zoologo. Soc.”—1 Please return it as soon as you can in enclosed envelope— I have asked Allman to forward it to you.2 There will be, only about a dozen signatures & all of good men.— Hooker, Huxley & Lubbock have agreed to sign—3 I sincerely hope that you may approve—
Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The enclosure was the memorial to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. It has not been found, but there is a draft of it in DAR 196: 3; for a transcription, see Appendix VI.
George James Allman received this letter enclosed with the letter to him of 17 December 1880.
Summary
Asks Flower to sign document [application for pension for Wallace].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12923
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Henry Flower
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 130
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12923,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12923.xml
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