From George King 1 October 1880
Alfred House | Gipsy Hill | Upper Norwood | S.E.
1 Oct 1880.
Dear Sir,
I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter of 29 which reached me last night.1
I shall be most happy to dine with you in accordance with your kind invitation if you will kindly allow me to come in ordinary dress, my evening clothes having been already sent on with my heavy baggage to Brindisi.2
It is very good of you to offer to put me up for the night, but as I am living so near to Beckenham I can easily return here after dinner.3 I came home on a very short holiday indeed & have been in London only since Sunday last. I must leave again in about a week & I regret to say I have only two evenings left free, namely Sunday & Monday next, on either of which I should, as may be convenient for you, be most happy to dine with you.4
I am glad that my notes on worm casts have proved of some use5
Believe me to be | Yrs sincerely | George King
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Howarth, David and Howarth, Stephen. 1994. The story of P&O: the Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Summary
Very pleased to receive CD’s dinner invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12734
- From
- George King
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Upper Norwood
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 22
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12734,” accessed on 27 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12734.xml