From A. W. Bennett 17 December 1875
6, Park Village East, | Regent’s Park, | N.W.
Dec. 17th. 1875.
My dear Sir
I can hardly tell you what pleasure it gave me to receive your very kind letter, which I did not get till late last evening.1 To make your personal acquaintance has been a dream of my life, which I had scarcely hoped to see fulfilled. I shall be perfectly disengaged all Sunday morning; & it will give me very great pleasure to see you. But if more convenient & agreeable to you, & less likely to be injurious to your health this foggy weather, will you permit me to call upon you instead. Should you come will you give Mrs Bennett2 & myself the additional pleasure of breakfasting with us at 9.30 or any other hour you may name?
I shall be particularly glad of this opportunity of meeting, as there are some points in my own observations of the leaves of Drosera & Pinguicula which I much want to submit to you before publishing, & could hardly do so in a letter.3
Pray do not take the trouble to write more than a single line in reply to this
& believe me, | my dear Sir | yrs most truly | Alfred W. Bennett
C. Darwin Esq.
When you come please make the driver understand that it is Park Village East & not West you want. Our house is almost close to the “York & Albany”.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Is delighted CD plans to call on him.
Wants to discuss botanical work.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10302
- From
- Alfred William Bennett
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Park Village East, 6
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 144
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10302,” accessed on 17 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10302.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23