From A. R. Wallace 23 September 1878
Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, | Croydon.
Septr 23rd. 1878
Dear Darwin
Many thanks for your signature and good wishes.—1 I have some hopes of success, but am rather doubtful of the Committee of the Corporation who will have the management, for they have just decided after a great struggle in the Court of Common Council, that it is to be a rotatory Committee, every member of the Council (of whom there are 200) coming on it in succession if they please. They evidently look upon it as a Committee which will have great opportunities of excursions picnics, & dinners, at the expense of the Corporation, while the improvement of the Forest will be quite a secondary matter.2
I am very glad to hear you are tolerably well. It is all I can say of myself.
Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace
Charles Darwin F.R.S.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11705
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Duppas Hill
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B140–1
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11705,” accessed on 30 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11705.xml