To Albert Günther 21 January [1871]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Jan 21.
My dear Dr. Günther
Will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here on Saturday 28th & stay the Sunday.— Mr Winwood Reade & I hope Swinhoe & Hooker will be here.— If you can come, the best plan will be by train which leaves Charing Cross at 5o. 5 & reaches Orpington at 5o 47’, when our carriage will meet you.—
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to the visit of Günther, William Winwood Reade, Robert Swinhoe, and Joseph Dalton Hooker to Down. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the visitors arrived on 28 January 1871 and on 30 January the ‘company went’.
Summary
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7450
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7450,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7450.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
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