To Thomas Belt 3 December [1874]1
2 Bryanston St. | Portman Square
Dec. 3rd.
My dear Sir
I have come to London for a week and am anxious to be allowed to make your personal acquaintance.2 Is there anywhere where I could meet you early next week and in the forenoon, as I am generally good for nothing in the afternoon? Or which would be the best plan for me, if not inconvenient to you, would you come here, (my daughter’s house) and lunch at 1 o’clock. If this would suit you, will you fix an early day next week, and I believe all days are the same to us.3
Pray believe me | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Invites TB to visit. Wants to make his acquaintance.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9742
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Belt
- Sent from
- London, Bryanston St, 2
- Source of text
- DAR 143: 80
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9742,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9742.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22