To ? 11 June [1861–8]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
June 11th
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kind invitation, which I am extremely sorry to say that the state of my health renders it impossible for me to accept.—
My dear Sir | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the headed notepaper, which is of a sort that CD used between May 1861 and April 1869.
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3179F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3179F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3179F.xml
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