To D. F. Nevill 15 July [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 15th
Dear Lady Dorothy Nevill.
I am proud to send my autograph, & am delighted to hear that any part of my book has interested you.— I ought to have answered your last note, but I was at the time quite overwhelmed with letters.—2 We shall be very glad to see your Ladyship here, but I hope to be in London late in the autumn when I will call on you, & this will save your long journey3
Your Ladyships | Very faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
From the Author | With Kind Regards.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Sends his autograph
and is delighted DN was interested by part of his book [Insectivorous plants].
Would be pleased to see DN at Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10068
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Dorothy Fanny Walpole/Dorothy Fanny Nevill
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 122
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10068,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10068.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
