To A. R. Wallace 14 December [1872?]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Dec. 14th.—
My dear Wallace
We go today to “6. Queen Anne St. W.” for one week.2 If you chance to be in London during this week, & have time to spare, will you come & lunch with us, at 1 oclock.— It wd. be a great pleasure to see you.—3
Ever yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. I have had a deal of ill-health of late & had to put off starting for London.—4
Footnotes
The year is conjectured from CD’s proposed trip to London (see n. 2, below).
CD did not set off for Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London on 14 December 1872 but, after spending two days ill in bed, made the journey on 17 December (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
According CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II), he stayed with Erasmus Darwin until the 23 December and was ‘unwell all time’. There is no evidence of his having seen Wallace during this visit to London.
Summary
Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8677
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8677,” accessed on 24 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8677.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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