From Roland Trimen [21] August [1871]1
71, Guildford Street | London W.C.
Monday, Augt. 20th.
My dear Mr. Darwin,
I have been detained longer than I had expected to be on my way back from Scotland, a sister having kept me for a week in Worcestershire.2
If it would suit you, I propose to call on you at Haredene either on Wednesday or Friday next;3 and if I do not hear anything from you to dissuade me, propose to reach you by the train arriving at Gomshall at 12.35 on Wednesday.
I shall not be staying at Albury now, but was doing so just before I wrote to you. It would have been very delightful if you had then been there, as I was staying at the very next house to Haredene, & so should probably have had more than one opportunity of meeting you.
There is a very convenient evening train back to London from Gomshall; so pray don’t think that I shall be inconvenienced by taking a return ticket.
Ever faithfully yours, | Roland Trimen.
Footnotes
Summary
Intends to visit CD at Haredene.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7915
- From
- Roland Trimen
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Guildford St, 71
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 189
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7915,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7915.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19