To T. W. Higginson [18 May 1878]
Handed in at the Farnboro Kent Office at 11.48 PM.
From C. Darwin | Down | Beckenham
To Colonel Higginson | Charing Cross Hotel
Glad to see you tomorrow Sunday dinner half past seven and bed. Orpington is only Station four miles off post answer will reach me tomorrow1
Footnotes
In the event, Higginson was unable to visit on 19 May 1878, but did visit from 24 to 25 May (see letter from Emma Darwin to T. W. Higginson, 19 May [1878]). A short description of this visit is in Higginson 1898, pp. 285–6.
Bibliography
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1898. Cheerful yesterdays. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press.
Summary
Glad to see TWH for Sunday dinner.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11516
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- MY 18 78
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 200)
- Physical description
- T
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11516,” accessed on 28 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11516.xml
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