To Charles Lyell [9 April 1873]1
[16 Montague Street] London
I hope that you have enjoyed your excursion The weather, however, has not been favourable as far as I can remember in this bewildering London life. We return home early tomorrow morning— I did not hear that you were off, till you were gone, as I told my wife I shd call on you one evening2
My dear Lyell | Yours ever very truly | Ch Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by a copyist’s note referring to a postmark ‘AP 9 73’ and by the reference to returning home. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins returned to Down on 10 April 1873.
Lyell had been in Ludlow, Shropshire (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 April 1873).
Summary
Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8552F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 327
- Physical description
- C
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8552F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8552F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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