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From Philip Henry Stanhope   28 July 1862

Chevening

July 28. 1862

My dear Mr. Darwin

Would you & Mrs. Darwin do us the pleasure of coming over here early on the afternoon of Thursday the 7th. & staying to dinner.1

If instead of returning at night you would sleep at Chevening we should be all the better pleased2

yrs. very sincerely | Stanhope

Footnotes

No reply to this letter has been found; however, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records for 7 August 1862: ‘went to London to see children and returned’. (Horace, Elizabeth, and Henrietta Emma Darwin were at that time staying in London because of Leonard Darwin’s illness (Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178); Francis and George Howard Darwin were staying with William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862]).)
Chevening, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was the seat of the Stanhope family.

Bibliography

Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1915.

Summary

Invites CD and Emma to dine.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3669
From
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Chevening
Source of text
DAR 177: 244
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3669,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3669.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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