To W. D. Whitney 8 May 1875
Dated Stamp of Delivering Office. MY 8 75
Handed in at the Farnboro Kent Office at 12.30 .m. Received here at 1.[illeg] .m.
From | C. Darwin | Down Farnboro | Kent
To | W. D. Whitney | Dr Rost | Jena Villa Castlebar Rd | Ealing
Hope you will come Sunday tomorrow by two thirty from Charing Cross to Orpington1 will send you to Station in evening as house is full2
Footnotes
Orpington Station was the closest to Down on the South Eastern Railway.
Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Thomas Henry and Katherine Euphemia Farrer and Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield arrived in Down on Saturday 8 May; presumably they stayed for the weekend.
Summary
Hopes WDW will come to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9974
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Dwight Whitney
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
- Physical description
- T
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9974,” accessed on 19 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9974.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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