To Francis Galton 9 January [1877]1
2 Bryanston St. Portman Sq
Jan 9th—
My dear Galton
I shd. very much to like to see you before we leave London.— If not inconvenient will you come & lunch here next Sunday at 1 oclock. I do not ask you earlier because George commanded me not, as he will not be in London till end of week & wants to meet you.2
Pray give my kind remembrances to Mrs. Galton:3 I wish that there was any chance of her coming with you, in which wish Henrietta joins
My dear Galton | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Poor Henrietta has been in bed for 3 or 4 days with very bad toothache. & cannot write herself—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Pritchard, Chris. 2007. Inheriting Galton’s statistics: George Darwin, Edgeworth and Weldon. [Paper delivered at the Royal Statistical Society, 23 March 2007.] Online at http://mugu.com/galton/, accessed 21 August 2015.
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10776
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Galton
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 2
- Source of text
- UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10776,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10776.xml