To Samuel Smiles 16 December 1876
Down, Beckenham, Kent
December 16, 1876.
I wrote to you yesterday addressed to the care of Mr. Murray, to thank you for your present and I write now merely to say that I shall have great pleasure in signing the proposed memorial.1
Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Secord, Anne. 2003. ‘Be what you would seem to be’: Samuel Smiles, Thomas Edward, and the making of a working-class scientific hero. Science in Context 16: 147–73.
Smiles, Samuel. 1876. Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnean Society. London: John Murray.
Summary
Has written via John Murray to thank for SS’s biography of Thomas Edward (Smiles 1876).
Is happy to sign a memorial concerning a Civil List pension for Thomas Edward.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10720F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Smiles
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10720F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10720F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24