From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Royal Geographical Society | 15, Whitehall Place, S.W.
Sept 10 1868
My dear Mr Darwin
On returning from a trip with my children I found your kind invitation.1 Unfortunately I cannot avail myself of it this time, on account of the arrears of work staring me in the face after a brief holiday. I have the 1st number of a new Geographical magazine to bring out in November,2 & manual of Geography in December (I wish they may get it) besides other indispensible work to do.3 So I must work on Sunday & week days for a few weeks.
Yours sincerely | H W Bates
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bates, Henry Walter. 1871. Hints on the collection of objects of natural history. In Hints to travellers, 3d and revised edition, edited by George Back et al. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 16 (1871–2): 67–78.
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6360
- From
- Henry Walter Bates
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- R. Geogr. Soc.
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 85
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6360,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6360.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
