From G. H. Darwin [9 September 1881]1
New University Club, | St. James’s Street, S.W.
Friday
Dear Father
I have found the missing packet of forks at bottom of box at Herries.2 I shall leave it at 2 Bry. St. to come to Down, if I have time to go there—& if not take them to Camb. & bring them home when I come.3
Yrs affec | G H Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, [7 September 1881]. The Friday following 7 September 1881 was 9 September.
Herries, Farquhar, Chapman & Co. were a banking firm at 16 St James’s Street, London (Post Office London directory 1878). George had arranged a temporary executor’s account there following the death of Erasmus Alvey Darwin (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881).
Four Bryanston Street was the home of Henrietta Emma and Richard Buckley Litchfield. George lived in Cambridge.
Summary
Has found the missing packet of forks, which he will send or take to Down.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13367
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- New University Club
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 94
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13367,” accessed on 6 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13367.xml
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