To Charles Edward and Mary Kingford Mudie 10 December [1842–5 or 1855–68]1
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 10th.
Mr Darwin presents his compliments to Mr & Mrs. Mudie & is much obliged for the honour of their invitation. Mr. Darwin fears that he cannot come up to London on that day, otherwise he would have had much pleasure in accepting Mr & Mrs. Mudies’ kind invitation.—
Footnotes
The date range is established by the form of the address, which CD used from October 1842 to April 1846, and from October 1855 until March 1869.
Summary
Declines invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13828
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling/Mary Kingsford Mudie
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13828,” accessed on 26 November 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13828.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
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