To ? 1 July 1871
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
July 1. 1871
Dear Sir
I am sorry to say that the state of my health renders it impossible for me to attend the British Assoc. at Edinburgh, which I should otherwise have much enjoyed.—1
Dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
The annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Edinburgh from 2 to 9 August 1871 (Report of the 41st meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1871): lxxxiii).
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7844
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7844,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7844.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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