From Charles Mostyn Owen 29 May 1881
Woodhouse, Iffley, Oxford
29 May 1881.
My dear Darwin
As it is now more than 40 years ago since we last met, you may have forgotten me, but I should very much like to see you again before leaving this world, & it is too late.1 Now I shall be in Town most of next week, & Wednesday being the Derby day,2 (which I shall not attend), I should like to pay you a visit of an hour or so, if you shall be at home on that day & like to see me?
My address in Town is the Hanover Square Club of which I am a member3—& if you write let me know what is your nearest Station for although my sister Sarah gave me your address, she did not say how far your residence was from a Station or name the Station.4
Should I come I should like to come early as I have to dine in Town on that evening.
Believe me | Yours Truly | C. Mostyn Owen
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hibbert, Christopher, et al., eds. 2010. The London encyclopaedia. 3d edition. London: Macmillan.
Summary
Would like to visit CD. Has not seen him for 40 years.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13182
- From
- Charles Mostyn Owen
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Iffley
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 202–3
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13182,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13182.xml