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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Roland Trimen   27 July 1871

Down | Beckenham

Thursd. July 27. 71

My dear Mr. Trimen,

I was much surprized to receive your letter & I am sorry to hear of the cause of your hurried return to England.—1 I have been a good deal out of health of late & we have taken Haredene for a month in order that I may get a little rest.2 We start tomorrow morning. I shall have very great pleasure in seeing you there after your return from Edinburgh. I am sorry to say that I cannot ask you to sleep with us as we shall have no beds to spare;—but I suppose from what you say that you will be staying in the neighbourhood.

Many thanks for the Review which I will read in the course of the day3

Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

CD refers to Trimen’s review of Descent in the Cape Monthly Magazine n.s. 2 (1871): 321–30.

Bibliography

Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.

Summary

Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-7884
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Roland Trimen
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70)
Physical description
LS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7884,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7884.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19

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