To James Cartmell [November 1877]1
My dear Dr Cartmell,
I thank you cordially, for your extremely kind letter.2 Dec 6th will be much the most convenient time for me to attend at Cambridge & in answer to a letter from the V.C. I have proposed this date.3 It is very good of you to invite me again to the Lodge, but I am sorry to say I must decline your kindness.—4 As I shd be very sorry that you shd. think me ungrateful, allow me to tell you that I suffer so much especially in my head, from all excitement that I cannot sit erect more than half an evening even with my nearest relations. On such occasion as receiving so great an honour as the L.L D. degree it wd be absolutely necessary for me to live quite by myself. I am aware that these details may appear superfluous but I have thought it best to state the simple truth.
Pray believe | yours truly obliged | C. D.
Footnotes
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11218
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Cartmell
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 26v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11218,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11218.xml
