To Ellen Frances Lubbock [26 September 1869?]1
Down. | Kent. S.E.
Sunday
My dear Lady Lubbock
I shd have liked extremely to have come to luncheon & accepted your kind invitation, but I have been talking so much to Dr. Hooker that I have no strength left.—2 Dr Hooker desires me to thank you & to say that he will call in the afternoon.
Pray believe me | Yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Would have liked to come to lunch, but has been talking so much to Hooker that he has no strength left.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6669
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ellen Frances Hordern/Ellen Frances Lubbock
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6669,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6669.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17