To H. W. Jackson 15 July 1880
Down, | Beckenham, Kent | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
July 15. 1880
My dear Sir,
I must write a line to thank you sincerely for the official & for your private note, both of them extremely kind.1 I much wish that the weather had been better, & then perhaps I could have made the visit more agreeable to your members. I was very tired in the evening, but none the worse next day.
My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Neither of the notes has been found, but they were evidently written to thank CD for having welcomed members and friends of the Lewisham and Blackheath Scientific Association to Down on 10 July 1880 (see letter to H. W. Jackson, 9 [July 1880] and n. 3). According to Emma Darwin, there were ‘violent showers every hour’ (letter to H. E. Litchfield, [11 July 1880] (DAR 219.9: 242)).
Summary
Thanks HWJ for his kind note. If the weather had been better CD could have made the visit [of the Lewisham & Blackheath Scientific Association] more agreeable.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12652
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Henry William Jackson
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 3
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12652,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12652.xml
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