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To T. H. Huxley   [5 March 1880?]1

6. Queen Anne St | W.

Friday night

My dear Huxley

I want so very much to see you, that you must let me call on you on Sunday morning between 10 & 11. (i.e. if I am well) & stay a half-hour.—2 I have much to do & very little strength to do it & so I propose coming on Sunday morning.—

If I do not hear, you may expect me.—

Ever yours | C. Darwin

Footnotes

1
The year is conjectured from the year given in Dawson 1946, p. 31, but CD was not staying at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, on the day and month given by Dawson, 3 December. The only date in 1880 on which CD could have written this letter is 5 March (see n. 2, below). In 1880, 5 March fell on a Friday.
2
CD stayed with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, from 4 to 8 March 1880 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)).

Bibliography

Dawson, Warren R. 1946. The Huxley papers. A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, PC, DCL, FRS, preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. London: Macmillan for the Imperial College of Science and Technology.

Summary

Is in town and will call on Sunday morning.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12513
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Henry Huxley
Sent from
London, Queen Anne St, 6
Source of text
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 354)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12513,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12513.xml

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