From W. E. Darwin [4 April 1875]¹

Bassett, | Southampton.

Sunday

My dear Father,

I will write & let Strickland know, and he will be very much obliged to you.²

If you go to Athenaeum again would you mind asking if I was put down at the end again when I came on for election some years ago; as it is possible in a few years time I might like to try my luck to get in.³

If you are not naturally there I could get a line introducing me to the Secretary who would tell me.⁴ I hope you find London suits you & that Mother is getting over her headaches. I am enjoying Belt⁵ very much indeed.

Your affect son | W. E. Darwin

Footnotes

1

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, 2 [April 1875], and by the fact that 4 April 1875 was a Sunday.

2

See letter to W. E. Darwin, 2 [April 1875] and n. 1; Sefton West Strickland was seeking election to the Athenaeum Club.

3

See letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 April 1875] and n. 1.

4

James Claude Webster was secretary of the Athenaeum club ([Cowell] 1975, p. 108).

5

Thomas Belt’s The naturalist in Nicaragua (Belt 1874a).