To William Ogle [4 December 1874, 10 December 1875, 17 December 1875, or 12 January 1877]1
2. Bryanston St— Portman St
Friday
Dear Ogle
I called on you this morning but you were out. If you are so inclined will you come & lunch here on Sunday at 1 o’clock? Do not trouble yourself to answer, but if the spirit moves you do come.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The possible dates are established by the ‘Down’ headed notepaper on which this letter is written (the printed address was crossed out) and by the handwritten address. The printed notepaper is of a sort that CD used from November 1874, and his daughter Henrietta Emma Litchfield lived at 2 Bryanston Street, London, from 1872; by February 1878, the address had changed to 4 Bryanston Street as a result of renumbering (Correspondence vol. 26, letter to James Torbitt, [28 February 1878]). Between November 1874 and February 1878, CD made three visits to 2 Bryanston Street; the Fridays during these visits on which this letter could have been written are 4 December 1874, 10 and 17 December 1875, and 12 January 1877.
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Invites WO to lunch.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9219
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 2
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9219,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9219.xml
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