To J. T. Gulick 28 July [1872]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 28th
My dear Sir
I read your article with the greatest possible interest & admiration.—1 I shd. be very glad to see you here & see a few of your specimens; but I labour under a great disadvantage, as I am much out of health, & am utterly unable to talk with anyone for more than a very short time & some days I can hardly see anyone. But if you will take your chance & come here & allow me to leave you as soon as I feel my head failing, I shall be delighted; yet I fear it will not be worth your trouble.
Here is another misfortune, I expect Prof. Donders of Utrecht (whom I could not refuse to see) to come here on Tuesday or Wednesday, & I could not possibly talk to two persons on the same day.—2 We lunch daily at 1 & dine at 7o. & we shd be very glad to see you at either time; or at about 4 oclock: my head is daily bad from 2 to 4 oclock.
I enclose list of Trains: Orpington (on the S.E. Ry.)3 is our nearest station, 4 miles from this house.—
Pray forgive me for writing so much about myself & health; but I could not avoid doing so, without leaving an impression of inhospitality on your mind.— If you think it worth while to come, pray inform me of day & hour, that I may endeavour to keep as fresh as I can.—
Believe me dear Sir| yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Gulick, Addison. 1932. Evolutionist and missionary: John Thomas Gulick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Summary
Invites JTG to visit.
Mentions visit from F. C. Donders.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8431
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Thomas Gulick
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JY29 72
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.422)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8431,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8431.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20