My dear Sir

I can hardly tell you what pleasure it gave me to receive your very kind letter, which I did not get till late last evening.¹ To make your personal acquaintance has been a dream of my life, which I had scarcely hoped to see fulfilled. I shall be perfectly disengaged all Sunday morning; & it will give me very great pleasure to see you. But if more convenient & agreeable to you, & less likely to be injurious to your health this foggy weather, will you permit me to call upon you instead. Should you come will you give Mrs Bennett² & myself the additional pleasure of breakfasting with us at 9.30 or any other hour you may name?

I shall be particularly glad of this opportunity of meeting, as there are some points in my own observations of the leaves of Drosera & Pinguicula which I much want to submit to you before publishing, & could hardly do so in a letter.³

Pray do not take the trouble to write more than a single line in reply to this

& believe me, | my dear Sir | yrs most truly | Alfred W. Bennett

C. Darwin Esq.

When you come please make the driver understand that it is Park Village East & not West you want. Our house is almost close to the “York & Albany”.