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From Josiah Mason   [before 22 September 1880]1

The Bailiff & Trustees of

Sir Josiah Mason’s Science College,

request the pleasure of the Company of

Mr. Charles Darwin and Lady

at the

opening Address by Professor Huxley, F.R.S.

in the Town Hall, Birmingham, at noon,

on the 1st. of October 1880,

and at a Soiree at the College

at 8 o’clock in the evening.2

An early answer on the accompanying form is

requested, when tickets of admission will be sent.3

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this invitation and the letter to Josiah Mason, 22 September 1880. The invitation was presumably accompanied by a now missing letter also inviting CD to a luncheon on the same day; see letter to Josiah Mason, 22 September 1880.
Thomas Henry Huxley’s opening address, ‘Science and culture’, was printed in Nature, 7 October 1880, pp. 545–8.
The form has not been found.

Summary

Invitation to an address by T. H. Huxley at Josiah Mason's Science College in Birmingham.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12721F
From
Josiah Mason
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Birmingham
Source of text
DAR 64.1: 49
Physical description
D 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12721F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12721F.xml

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