To John Murray 13 June [1880]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station, | Orpington. S.E.R.
June 13th
My dear Mr Murray
The Bearer of this note is my son-in-law, Mr Litchfield of the Ecclesiastical Commission, who wishes to speak to you about a map to interest some working men, whom he is going to take down to Cambridge for a day’s excursion.—2
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the date of the Working Men’s College summer excursion to Cambridge (see n. 2, below).
Richard Buckley Litchfield was a clerk to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and also taught at the Working Men’s College in London. The college summer excursion for 1880 took place on 11 July and was to Cambridge, where Litchfield arranged a dinner at Trinity College (R. B. Litchfield, Record, personal and domestic, vol. 1 (DAR 248/1), p. 136).
Summary
Letter of introduction for R. B. Litchfield.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9491
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 60–1)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9491,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9491.xml
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